Alternatives to Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Z.ai Chat.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's hosted assistant covering writing, coding, analysis and image creation, with features and limits that vary by plan instead of Z.ai Chat's free GLM access.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude from Anthropic offers a large context window and an Artifacts panel for code and documents, with a free tier that has usage limits rather than free GLM access.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Google Gemini accepts multimodal input and ties into Google services, running on Google's servers instead of Zhipu AI's, with features varying by plan.
DeepSeek
A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.
DeepSeek is another Chinese-developed web chat assistant known for strong coding ability, with a free tier, swapping Zhipu AI's GLM models for DeepSeek's own.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.
Kimi from Moonshot AI focuses on long documents, research and agent tasks for coding and slides, with scheduled tasks, on a freemium plan instead of free use.
Qwen Studio
Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.
Qwen Studio gives free access to Alibaba's Qwen models with an official mobile app, though its web page steers users toward the app and some systems see compatibility notices.
Le Chat
Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.
Le Chat from Mistral AI is a multilingual assistant from a European developer, moving prompts to Mistral's servers, with plan details and limits not confirmed.
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
HuggingChat lets you pick among many hosted open-source models for free, with automatic model selection, rather than using only Zhipu AI's GLM models.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Z.ai Chat as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.
Z.ai Chat is a free web assistant from Zhipu AI on its GLM models, handling coding and website building plus an agent mode for multi-step tasks.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
Grok
An AI assistant for chat, images and code, with real-time answers from the web and X.
Manus
An autonomous AI agent that carries out multi-step tasks such as building slides and websites.
TypingMind
A chat interface for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other language models that runs on your own API keys.
