Free tier/Report for October 2026

Z.ai

Free API tier limits · LLM inference

GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash are priced 'Free' for input and output.

Card unverifiedVerified Oct 21, 20261 official sourceLLM inference
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Free allowance

Free per-token price on the listed Flash models.

Credits. Cached-input storage is 'Limited-time Free' on most paid GLM models.

Models on the free offer

GLM-4.7-FlashGLM-4.5-FlashGLM-4.6V-Flash (vision)
Left blank on purpose: rate limits, whether a card is required. No official public source as of Oct 21, 2026.

Questions

Does Z.ai have a free API tier?
Free tier. GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash are priced 'Free' for input and output.
Does Z.ai require a credit card?
We could not verify this from an official page, so we leave it blank rather than guess.
What are Z.ai's free rate limits?
Not published on an official page we could verify.
When was this Z.ai data last verified?
Oct 21, 2026, against: Pricing.