
Stronger reasoning and broader app ecosystem, but lacks Grok's native live X social media data integration.
#1BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Grok records 203,846,050 monthly visits with -0.8% growth and Freemium pricing.

Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | grok.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 203.85M (203,846,050) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| -1.17M (-17%) |
| -1.62M (-0.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (27.7%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 133.67M |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.5 |
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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.

xAI's real-time AI assistant and coding workspace powered by Grok 4.7 with live X integration.
Features configurable reasoning, low hallucination rates, native agentic tool calling, and a 500K-token context window (with up to 2M tokens on Grok 4.1 Fast).
Combines live web browsing with direct access to real-time posts, threads, and breaking events on X to deliver up-to-the-minute synthesis.
Provides a dedicated agentic coding environment with Grok Build 0.1 and Grok 4.7 Fast, while October 2026 subscription tiers bundle access to the Cursor code editor.
Generates high-resolution images and video clips alongside real-time speech-to-speech Voice mode from a single shared weekly usage pool.

Stronger reasoning and broader app ecosystem, but lacks Grok's native live X social media data integration.
#1
Better Google workspace integration and massive context window, but lacks Grok's edgy conversational tone and X feed.
#2Superior coding and document analysis, but lacks real-time social media search and instant image generation.

SpecialistCommercially safe creative design and editing tools, but lacks general-purpose conversational chat and web search.
Free / Open-sourceOutstanding low-cost reasoning and open-weight model performance, but lacks real-time social data search capabilities.

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.
SpecialistExceptional cited web research and source verification, but lacks conversational flexibility and built-in image generator.
Free social-integrated assistant with image generation, but less advanced coding and reasoning capabilities than Grok.
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of global models under one API endpoint, whereas BigModel provides direct native infrastructure for Zhipu's GLM models.

SpecialistPowerful long-context document analysis and deep research, but lacks real-time social data search and image creation.

SpecialistAdvanced agentic search and automated research pages, but less polished as a general daily chat assistant.

Stronger reasoning and broader app ecosystem, but lacks Grok's native live X social media data integration.
Better Google workspace integration and massive context window, but lacks Grok's edgy conversational tone and X feed.
Superior coding and document analysis, but lacks real-time social media search and instant image generation.
SpecialistCommercially safe creative design and editing tools, but lacks general-purpose conversational chat and web search.
Free / Open-sourceOutstanding low-cost reasoning and open-weight model performance, but lacks real-time social data search capabilities.
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.
SpecialistExceptional cited web research and source verification, but lacks conversational flexibility and built-in image generator.
Free social-integrated assistant with image generation, but less advanced coding and reasoning capabilities than Grok.
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of global models under one API endpoint, whereas BigModel provides direct native infrastructure for Zhipu's GLM models.
SpecialistPowerful long-context document analysis and deep research, but lacks real-time social data search and image creation.
SpecialistAdvanced agentic search and automated research pages, but less polished as a general daily chat assistant.