One key for live GLM models
Use one LinkModel API key for supported Z.ai models and future versions as they enter the live catalog.
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Build long-horizon coding, reasoning, and agent workflows with the GLM models currently available through LinkModel.
Provider overview
About Z.ai and the GLM family
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Z.ai develops the open-weight GLM model family for reasoning, coding, agents, and general language work. Its official catalog may include models that are not yet listed on LinkModel; this page only presents the Z.ai models currently available through LinkModel's live catalog.
Explore Z.ai GLM APIs
Compare the Z.ai language models currently listed on LinkModel. The live catalog controls availability and pricing; open each model page to confirm its active context limit and request schema before production use.
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Search all models for Z.aiWhy run Z.ai models through LinkModel?
Access supported GLM models alongside other language providers while centralizing credentials, usage, and pay-as-you-go billing.
Compare language providers in one place
Evaluate GLM alongside Kimi, DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other live language families without maintaining another provider billing flow.
Centralized usage and billing
Track requests and pay-as-you-go charges from one account while keeping the selected model explicit in each integration.
Integrate a Z.ai GLM API
Use one LinkModel credential to call an available GLM model and keep model access, usage, and billing in the same workflow.
Authenticate with one API key
Create a LinkModel API key and use it to authenticate requests for Z.ai models enabled for your account.
Choose a live GLM model
Select the model for your workload, then open its LinkModel page to confirm the current identifier, price, context limit, and request schema.
Send and monitor the request
Submit the supported message payload, handle streaming or structured output only when documented by the live schema, and monitor usage from the same account.
Z.ai model guides
GLM API Guide: Pricing, Coding Power & When to Use GLM-5.1
A practical GLM-5.1 API guide — Z.ai's open-weight 754B model built for 8-hour autonomous coding. Pricing, benchmarks, cache economics and how it stacks up.
GLM vs Kimi: Which Open-Weight Coding Model Wins in 2026?
GLM-5.1 vs Kimi K2.6 — two open-weight agentic coding models compared on price, context, multimodality, agent style and licensing. Which to point your coding agent at.
Best Open-Source LLM API in 2026: DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax
The best open-weight LLM APIs in 2026 — DeepSeek V4, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6 and MiniMax M2.7 compared on price, coding, context and licensing, with the self-host trade-off.
Best LLM API for Coding in 2026: Agents, Cost & Benchmarks
The best coding LLM APIs in 2026 — Claude Opus, GPT Codex, DeepSeek V4 Pro, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6 and MiniMax M2.7 compared on SWE-bench, agent stamina and price.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Sources and editorial information
Editorial review
Model capabilities and selection guidance are reviewed against the official Z.ai sources listed here.
Editorial content reviewed: September 1, 2026
Z.ai and its model names belong to their respective owners. LinkModel is an independent API aggregation platform and does not imply a formal relationship.