GLM (Z.ai) 智谱
China · Beijing
alternative to GPT / Claude
Zhipu's Apache-licensed GLM-5.3 open-weight models for coding and long-horizon agents.
Why it fits
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
- AI stack
Regional alternatives
Model & licence
- Access
- open weights
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Modalities
- text, vision, code
- Context
- 1M
Capability rank #4 (manual, as of 2026-10). Editorial snapshot across public 2026 benchmark reports; rankings move often.
Independence & portability
Strategic independence · 95/100
- Deployment
- air gapped
- Data control
- self hosted
- Portability
- high
- Supply-chain
- high
- Ecosystem
- mature
- Openness
- open source (15/15)
Procurement/migration signal, not a certification. As of 2026-10. Apache-licensed GLM-5.3 and 5.3-Flash weights; local deployment via SGLang, vLLM and Transformers. How this is scored.
Company & market
- Parent company
- Zhipu AI
- Registered
- Beijing
- Listing
- HK-listed
- Ticker
- 2513.HK
- Market cap / val. (USD)
- ~$75 B
- Foreign-investable
- Yes