Free / Open-sourceDelivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance at very low cost, but lacks BigModel's broad enterprise multi-modal agent building suite.

BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. First Answer records 3,482 monthly visits with +18.9% growth and Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.

Track and improve how AI assistants describe and recommend your brand
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | firstanswer.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 3.48K (3,482) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
|---|
| -1.17M (-17%) |
| +554 (+18.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇧🇷 Brazil (85.3%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 1.44K |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.1 |
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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.

Track and improve how AI assistants describe and recommend your brand
Define the prompts that matter to your business and track how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI Overviews answer them over time.
See how often your brand appears versus competitors, where in the answer you are mentioned and how positively AI describes you.
Discover which domains, pages and publications the models reference in your category to find the content gaps worth filling.
Track which AI bots visit your site, how frequently and which pages they read, closing the loop between publishing and AI visibility.
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
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.
One cloud for 200+ model APIs, agent sandboxes and GPU compute
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
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.