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Z.ai
Company blog · z.ai/blogaiprogramming
Z.ai is the company blog at z.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 64 different Hacker News readers have linked it 84 times, most often “Z.ai doubles it's coding plan prices”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Z.ai doubles it's coding plan prices14 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2025-09-01
- GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
- GLM-5.3-Flash6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-08-26
- GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-06-16
- GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-22
- GLM-4.6V4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
- Scaling Pain of Coding Agent Serving: Lessons from Debugging GLM-5 at Scale3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-14
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-05
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-07
What Hacker News says?
This is the takeaway here: That's how they have been serving it at scale as Ox-Alpha. This is a definitional moment.- Further quote: "Compared with our initial baseline on the same hardware, we achieved a 3× improvement in end-to-end serving performance, reaching hardware efficiency and per-token cost comparable to mainstream NVIDIA GPUs. This demonstrates that Chinese chips can support frontier-model inference effi…
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on “GLM-5.3-Flash”Submitted GLM-5.3-Flash as a story · 1132 points
HN discussionIt looks like the $3 plan is only a promo price for the 1st month and it's actually $6/mo, or am I missing something? https://z.ai/payment?productIds=product-6caada
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on “Claude now has access to a server-side container environment”Submitted GLM-Legal as a story · 676 points
HN discussionThis one https://z.ai/subscribe
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on “Claude now has access to a server-side container environment”Submitted GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability as a story · 417 points
HN discussionI found using z.ai a performant and cheap alternative for some tasks: https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=VWKNBI8LR8 Costs are 6x cheaper and it's way faster and good at test writing and tool calling. It some times can be a bit messy though so use Gemini or Claude or codex for that hard problems....
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on “Claude Code on the web”Submitted How GLM built its own inference infrastructure as a story · 411 points
HN discussionAlso there is a fixed price Claude Code plan for GLM 4.6 from z.ai, I pay for the cheapest ($6/mo) as an alternate/fallback for Claude Code and Codex. I've been surprised by how similar in capabilities all three of them are, definitely not seeing a big CLI agent moat... GLM is maybe slightly weaker on average but on the other hand it's also solved problems where both CC and Codex got stuck in endless failure loops s…
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on “Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography”Submitted GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties as a story · 247 points
HN discussionFrom their blog post, it's 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters, so a similar size, but slightly bigger. Regular pricing is $0.15 input, $0.50 output... but currently 50% off, making it $0.075 input and $0.25 output. That beats most of the V4 Flash providers, but not all, and obviously tokens per task may not be equivalent. I've also just noticed the blog post reveals the Artificial Analysis score - it's…
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on “Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights”Submitted GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities as a story · 129 points
HN discussionhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
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on “Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights”Submitted GLM-4.6: Advanced Agentic, Reasoning and Coding Capabilies as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI'm completely blown away by ZAI GLM 4.7. Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off. 60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable Anyone cares to subscribe here is a link: https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=OUCO7ISEDB
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on “GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability”Submitted GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI'm completely blown away by ZAI GLM 4.7. Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off. 60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable Anyone cares to subscribe here is a link: You’ve been invited to join the GLM Coding Plan! Enjoy full support for Claude Code, Cline, and 10+ top coding tools — starting at just $3/month. S…
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on “GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability”Submitted GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt wasn't a secret either. They blogged about it last month: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash#:~:text=Serving%20at%20Scale...
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on “How GLM built its own inference infrastructure”Submitted GLM-4.6V as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://z.ai/subscribe
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on “New coding models and integrations”Submitted Z.ai doubles it's coding plan prices as a story · 5 points
HN discussionyou can use any model with Claude code thanks to https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router but in my testing other models do not work well, looks like prompts are either very optimized for Claude, or other models are just not great yet with such agentic environment I was especially disappointed with grok code. it is very fast as advertised but in generating spaces and new lines in function calling until it hi…
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on “GLM 4.5 with Claude Code”Submitted GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou can try the latest GLM 4.6 https://z.ai/ . Their coding plan is $6 a month and performs on par to Sonnet 4 for my personal task. Sonnet 4.5 still has an edge though. All of ZLM’s models are also open sourced so you can run it locally if you want
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on “Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits”Submitted GLM Coding Plan for Claude Code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWorth saying that GLM-5.3 isn't GLM-5.3-Flash's "big brother" the way one might think. GLM-5.3-Flash is not GLM-5.3 scaled down. While GLM-5.3 is based on GLM-5.2, and "every gain comes from post-training" ( https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 ), GLM-5.3-Flash uses a newly trained multimodal base model ( https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash ).
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on “DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model”Submitted GLM-4.6V: Open-Source Multimodal Models with Native Tool Use as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGLM 4.7 scores 41.0% on Terminal Bench 2.0 [1] compared to 58.4% for GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark [2]. [1] https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7 [2] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
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on “GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark”Submitted GLM Coding Plan as a story · 4 points
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