Free / Open-sourceDelivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance at very low cost, but lacks BigModel's broad enterprise multi-modal agent building suite.

BigModel records 5,700,686 monthly visits with -17% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Surf records 116,252 monthly visits with -18.9% growth and Free, Pro, Max, API credits pricing.
Institution-grade crypto and equities intelligence, delivered through a chat-style AI analyst.
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| Official Domain | bigmodel.cn | asksurf.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free, Pro, Max, API credits |
| Monthly Visits | 5.7M (5,700,686) | 116.25K (116,252) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -1.17M (-17%) |
| -27.18K (-18.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (85.8%) | 🇰🇷 South Korea (32.6%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 4.23M | 88.81K |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
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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.
Institution-grade crypto and equities intelligence, delivered through a chat-style AI analyst.
Ask questions about tokens, protocols, or equities in plain language and receive answers backed by visible sources rather than unsupported assertions.
Market prices, onchain events, SEC filings, and news are normalized into one structured layer so the model reasons over consistent inputs.
API, MCP server, CLI, and agent skills let teams wire Surf intelligence into their own agents, dashboards, and internal research workflows.
Purpose-built modules for tracking market-moving developments and for looking up structured context on projects and assets.
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.

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Global macro data and AI research platform for smarter economic decisions

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
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.
AI trading indicators, real-trade orderflow and charts in one platform
Global macro data and AI research platform for smarter economic decisions
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