
Commercially safe generative AI studio with built-in copyright indemnification and native stock asset ecosystem integration.
#1BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Shutterstock AI Image Generator records 47,855,171 monthly visits with +3.2% growth and Paid pricing.

Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | shutterstock.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 47.86M (47,855,171) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| -1.17M (-17%) |
| +1.49M (+3.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (15.2%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 12.47M |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
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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.
Commercially licensed AI image generator aggregating frontier visual models with legal indemnification and stock asset integration.
Provides single-dashboard access to leading third-party visual models—including OpenAI GPT Image 2, Google Imagen 4 Ultra, Gemini 3.1 Flash, and Runway Gen-4—with an automated recommender that matches prompts to the best engine.
Attaches a commercial Shutterstock Standard License and $10,000 legal indemnification to every downloaded AI image, with full human-reviewed indemnification available on Enterprise and Business tiers.
Includes browser-based inpainting, magic object erasure, background removal, image reference guidance, and aspect-ratio canvas expansion that routes royalties directly to the original contributor when editing stock photos.
Displays stock photos, vectors, 3D assets, and AI generation options in one workflow, complemented by official ChatGPT and Claude connectors for conversational asset discovery.

Commercially safe generative AI studio with built-in copyright indemnification and native stock asset ecosystem integration.
#1Free / 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.

SpecialistE-commerce focused visual editor specializing in product photography background removal and generative scenes.
SpecialistAll-in-one creative studio combining AI generation with robust photo editing and design tools.

Industry-leading image generator producing higher-fidelity visuals, though lacking native stock asset libraries and commercial indemnification.

Stock photo platform combining traditional licensed media search with native AI image generation capabilities.
Stock media platform offering text-to-image generation backed by commercial licensing support.

SpecialistOne API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
SpecialistGenerate images, video and audio at scale with 50+ AI models
Commercially safe generative AI studio with built-in copyright indemnification and native stock asset ecosystem integration.
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.
SpecialistE-commerce focused visual editor specializing in product photography background removal and generative scenes.
SpecialistAll-in-one creative studio combining AI generation with robust photo editing and design tools.
Industry-leading image generator producing higher-fidelity visuals, though lacking native stock asset libraries and commercial indemnification.
Stock photo platform combining traditional licensed media search with native AI image generation capabilities.
Stock media platform offering text-to-image generation backed by commercial licensing support.
SpecialistGenerate images, video and audio at scale with 50+ AI models