BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Formation records 81,461 monthly visits with -1.2% growth and Paid pricing.
Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
Adaptive interview prep and mentorship for experienced software engineers
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | formation.dev |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 81.46K (81,461) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -1.17M (-17%) | -959 (-1.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (59.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 62.44K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
Adaptive interview prep and mentorship for experienced software engineers
Practice recalibrates each session, getting harder as you improve so hours go where your target rounds demand.
Get matched with mentors and hiring managers who run interviews at the companies you're targeting.
Prepare for data structures and algorithms, system design, AI-assisted coding, behavioral rounds, and more.
Solo, one-on-one, or small-group mocks plus career coaching and negotiation support.
Free / Open-sourceDelivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance at very low cost, but lacks BigModel's broad enterprise multi-modal agent building suite.
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.
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.
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.
SpecialistAggregates 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.
Free / Open-sourceSpecializes in serverless open-source model hosting and dedicated GPU clusters, but provides less native proprietary GLM model integration.
Agentic skills intelligence for hiring, developing, and planning talent
Run, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models with one line of code
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
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.
Provides strong multimodal language and audio-visual foundation models, but operates on different proprietary model architectures than Zhipu's GLM.
