BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SiliconFlow records 276,303 monthly visits with -10.5% growth and Pay-as-you-go pricing.
Zhipu AI's open platform for GLM large models, multimodal APIs, and agent building
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | siliconflow.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Pay-as-you-go |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 276.3K (276,303) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -1.17M (-17%) | -32.46K (-10.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 95.11K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 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.
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
Access a large catalog of LLMs and multimodal models through a single endpoint, so most existing SDK code works after swapping the base URL and key.
Start with pay-per-use serverless calls, then move to dedicated endpoints, reserved H100/H200/MI300 GPUs or elastic GPU (FaaS) deployment as throughput and cost requirements grow.
Customize supported models on your own data and push the tuned variant to a hosted endpoint without building a training pipeline from scratch.
Transparent rate tables list input, cached-input and output prices per million tokens, plus per-image rates for generation models, making budget planning concrete.
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.
SpecialistEnterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
SpecialistEnterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
SpecialistProvides direct access to Gemini models with a generous free tier, but lacks broader open-source model variety.
SpecialistProvides direct access to Gemini models with a generous free tier, but lacks broader open-source model variety.
Aggregates a wider selection of global models, but lacks SiliconFlow's specialized high-throughput open-weight infrastructure.
Aggregates a wider selection of global models, but lacks SiliconFlow's specialized high-throughput open-weight infrastructure.
SpecialistSpecializes in high-speed generative media and image models, but offers less comprehensive large language model coverage.
SpecialistSpecializes in high-speed generative media and image models, but offers less comprehensive large language model coverage.
Provides robust serverless inference for open models, but has a different pricing and developer tooling ecosystem.
Provides robust serverless inference for open models, but has a different pricing and developer tooling ecosystem.
Excels at running custom machine learning models and fine-tunes, but can be pricier for standard LLM inference.
Excels at running custom machine learning models and fine-tunes, but can be pricier for standard LLM inference.
SpecialistOpen-source, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local model running
SpecialistOpen-source, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local model running
Delivers extremely fast inference speeds for open-source models, but supports a slightly narrower model catalog.
Offers exceptionally low-cost serverless inference for open-weight models, but features fewer proprietary model options.
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.
Offers competitive pricing for open models and GPU hosting, but has a less mature developer ecosystem.
