BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. nOps records 97,959 monthly visits with +13.8% growth and Usage-based pricing.
Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
Autonomous cloud cost optimization that pays for itself
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| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | nops.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Usage-based |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 97.96K (97,959) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -1.17M (-17%) |
| +11.9K (+13.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (52.2%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 32.03K |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 |
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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.
Autonomous cloud cost optimization that pays for itself
An autonomous engine maps your usage patterns hourly, buys the optimal mix of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed use discounts, and rebalances continuously to keep discounts high without locking you into long commitments.
See multicloud, Kubernetes, SaaS, and AI spend at hourly granularity, with business context, forecasting, anomaly detection, and unit economics that show what actually drives cost.
Allocate hourly AI spend to the model, account, team, customer, and feature behind it, covering providers such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Claude, and Cursor, with recommendations for token efficiency, model choice, and caching.
Track Effective Savings Rate, commitment coverage, and realized savings in real time, and route alerts and tasks into tools like Slack, Jira, Datadog, and Snowflake.
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.
