Zhipu AI’s BigModel Platform Enters “Billion” Era with Affordable Models

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4 月 25, 2025 #billion, #每日AI快讯

Beijing, [Date – Insert Today’s Date] – Zhipu BigModel, a leading Chinese artificial intelligence company, today announced a significant shift in its pricing strategy, entering what it calls the Billion era. The move aims to democratize access to advanced AI models by offering dramatically reduced prices on its high-performance GLM series.

This announcement signals a potential turning point in the AI landscape, particularly for businesses and developers seeking to integrate powerful language models into their applications without incurring prohibitive costs.

The key highlights of the price reductions include:

GLM-4-FlashX: Priced at a mere 10 RMB per 100 million tokens. This enhanced version of the GLM-4-Flash model boasts ultra-fast inference speeds and comparable function calling capabilities to GPT-4, making it ideal for tasks such as data extraction, content generation, and translation.
GLM-Z1-Air: Available for 50 RMB per 100 million tokens.
GLM-Z1-AirX: Offered at 500 RMB per 100 million tokens. The GLM-Z1 series is known for its rapid inference speeds, reportedly exceeding DeepSeek-R1 by a factor of eight (200 tokens/second), making it one of the fastest models available in China. Zhipu claims the GLM-Z1 series has already seen significant adoption, with over 10,000 businesses and developers utilizing the models since their launch.
GLM-4-Plus: A massive 90% price cut, bringing the cost down to 500 RMB per 100 million tokens. Zhipu emphasizes that this price is 92% lower than the industry average, making it a highly competitive option for users requiring a robust and versatile language model.

We believe that by offering high-precision models at significantly lower costs, we can empower more businesses and developers to leverage the power of large language models, stated a representative from Zhipu BigModel.

The company’s move is likely to intensify competition within the rapidly evolving Chinese AI market. By focusing on affordability, Zhipu BigModel is positioning itself to capture a larger share of the market, particularly among smaller businesses and startups that may have previously been priced out of accessing cutting-edge AI technology.

The impact of this pricing strategy remains to be seen, but it undoubtedly represents a bold step towards making advanced AI more accessible and fostering innovation across various industries.

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