BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Databrain records 5,880 monthly visits with -44.7% growth and Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
Governed agentic and embedded analytics on your own data warehouse
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | usedatabrain.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 5.88K (5,880) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
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| -1.17M (-17%) |
| -4.76K (-44.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (53.3%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 2.33K |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
Unified access to GLM large language models plus vision, OCR, speech, image, and video endpoints through one account.
Build tool-using agents and expose or consume MCP services to connect models to external systems.
Create managed knowledge bases and retrieval pipelines so models can answer with your own documents.
Tune models on your data and prototype prompts interactively in the browser before shipping.
Governed agentic and embedded analytics on your own data warehouse
AI drafts metric definitions from your warehouse, you approve them, and every dashboard, embed and agent answer resolves to one signed-off definition.
Ship customer-facing dashboards styled with your design tokens, in light or dark mode, with scheduled reports sent from your own subdomain.
Row-level and column-level rules plus role-scoped guest tokens are enforced before any SQL runs, so an embed can never show more than it allows.
An agent builds charts and edits dashboards from prompts, while an MCP server exposes the governed model to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Windsurf.
Free / Open-sourceDelivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance at very low cost, but lacks BigModel's broad enterprise multi-modal agent building suite.
Provides industry-leading frontier intelligence and developer ecosystems, but lacks BigModel's specialized GLM architecture and native Chinese language optimizations.
Offers massive context windows and robust multimodal Gemini APIs, but differs in model architecture and regional enterprise tooling.
#3SpecialistAggregates hundreds of global models under one API endpoint, whereas BigModel provides direct native infrastructure for Zhipu's GLM models.
SpecialistOne API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
Free / Open-sourceSpecializes in serverless open-source model hosting and dedicated GPU clusters, but provides less native proprietary GLM model integration.
Run, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models with one line of code
SpecialistAn agentic analytics platform that turns questions into governed, trusted answers
Delivers ultra-fast inference speeds for open-weight models, but focuses less on proprietary enterprise agent building toolkits than BigModel.
Free / Open-sourceOffers highly cost-effective serverless inference for open models, but lacks BigModel's integrated enterprise knowledge base and agent tools.
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
Provides strong multimodal language and audio-visual foundation models, but operates on different proprietary model architectures than Zhipu's GLM.
Free / Open-sourceDelivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance at very low cost, but lacks BigModel's broad enterprise multi-modal agent building suite.
Provides industry-leading frontier intelligence and developer ecosystems, but lacks BigModel's specialized GLM architecture and native Chinese language optimizations.
Offers massive context windows and robust multimodal Gemini APIs, but differs in model architecture and regional enterprise tooling.
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of global models under one API endpoint, whereas BigModel provides direct native infrastructure for Zhipu's GLM models.
Free / Open-sourceSpecializes in serverless open-source model hosting and dedicated GPU clusters, but provides less native proprietary GLM model integration.
Run, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models with one line of code
SpecialistAn agentic analytics platform that turns questions into governed, trusted answers
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
Provides strong multimodal language and audio-visual foundation models, but operates on different proprietary model architectures than Zhipu's GLM.
