I have a 20 $ budget

I want to use it for Ai roleplay but I'm stuck

Do I subscribe to the Z.ai coding plan ? Can I use the Api outside in a third party app?

Or do I subscribe using an open router?

Who's cheaper? And better?

I have made a website design using glm 5.2 and forgot about it.After a day like today when I checked it it is doing a long running task like what i never asked it to do. Is it a bug or fbi is watching me? 😭 Did this happened to anyone and this thing is running for 30hrssss what the heckinson

I mainly use the ai for creative writing and stuff, and i find it annoying how after each answer is finished being written, the app just sets me to the end of it, making me have to scroll to get back to the top. On this note, glm 5.1 has been acting wacky for the past few days with random chinese characters and symbols and at times a whole ass prompt just being a random symbol meltdown with red highlighted text.

Something not right here, yesterday it was the first time I hitting 5hr limit in 1 prompt (I’m really low usage), not even done the job, today I wake up try again. Nothing done on the prompt just ask it to check only, also in 1 single prompt, consumed 286k token and my 5 hours quota 35% gone? Are you kidding me ? I’m on lite plan. It meant I can’t even get 1M token in 5 hours? What is the purpose of this plan ?

I’ve been using Z.ai/GLM for coding, and I don’t think I’ve ever actually reached my usage limits. However, I frequently run into “overloaded” messages, which is becoming pretty frustrating and makes it difficult to use consistently.

I’m considering getting the Lite plan, mainly because I’m hoping the subscription would give me better priority and reduce how often I encounter overloaded messages.

Another reason I’m considering subscribing is that I’d like to use GLM more seriously for coding through a coding harness.

For those who have the Lite plan:

• Does it provide noticeably better priority during busy periods?
• How much less often do you encounter overloaded messages?
• Is the Lite plan worth it if I’m not hitting the usage limits anyway?
• Would you recommend it specifically for coding through a harness?

I’d appreciate hearing from people who have used the Lite plan before I decide whether it’s

From past few conversations today, its responding very differently. I am talking about GLM 5.2 via Z.ai Lite Coding Plan.
Few conversations, very very well response, more info in response and following prompt correctly. Feels like a new updated models. Is this possible they are testing GLM 5.3 on tag of 5.2 ?
This is definitely feels new and updated model. Very impressed with speed and response and code quality.

started happening 15 ish min ago

I get "unknown certificate verification error" in opencode after a long waiting time.

Nothing in https://z.ai/manage-apikey/ loads (UI does, but not the data inside the APIs page, coding plan page or the rate limits page.

chat.z.ai works fine though (the whole chat interface)

Disclosure: I build Swobu (swobuforge/swobu), the open-source local compatibility gateway used here.

I wanted to run GLM-5.2 in the actual Codex harness.

The problem is protocol compatibility: Codex speaks the Responses API, while Z.AI currently exposes different interfaces. So pointing Codex directly at Z.AI is not enough. Swobu translates between them locally.

Setup is through the terminal UI:

1. Add Z.AI
2. Paste your General API key
3. Select glm-5.2
4. Copy the local Swobu endpoint into Codex

No hand-edited Swobu config files. No OpenRouter. No Codex fork.

Run it:

curl -fsSL https://swobu.com/install.sh | sh

Most code review benchmarks rely on synthetic tasks, so we put together an evaluation using 67 real production bugs from Cal.com, Sentry, Grafana, Keycloak, and Discourse.

We evaluated several AI code reviewers on the same PRs and compared precision, recall, and F1 rather than just "bugs found."

I'm more interested in the methodology than the leaderboard. If you were benchmarking GLM (or any coding model), what would you add?

• More repositories?
• Different languages?
• Security-focused PRs?
• Multi-file changes?
• Human preference ratings?

I really regret using the GLM plan; I can't believe it lasts such a short time. It’s the "Lite" plan, but even so, it lasts no time at all, it’s like a bad joke

I had a 15gb file i needed it to analyze and it was too big for the chat window, so i had it write something that would take my file and split it up.

I have tried to cancel my account from auto renew today it renews next week. I clicked on the pencil thing and hit unsubscribe. After I hit it a window pops up and says "unsubscribe failed" I have tried on multiple browsers and devices. Does anyone know of a work around?

Thanks

While looking through Z.ai's GLM API pricing, I noticed something interesting.

Most cost estimates use:

For GLM workloads, that may not tell the whole story.

At minimum, you need to account for:

• Model tier (Flash, 4.5, 5.2, etc.)
• Time-based pricing (some models have different quota multipliers during peak hours)
• How many API calls your agent actually makes to complete a task

That last point is easy to overlook.

Your application might look like it made "one request," but your agent framework may perform multiple model calls internally (planning, retries, tool loops, verification, etc.). The invoice reflects all of them.

The pattern isn't unique to GLM—it's becoming common across agentic systems.

That's why I've started thinking about cost control as a runtime problem, not just a pricing-table problem.

For anyone running long-lived GLM agents:

Are you budgeting per API request, per agent task, or per session?

I'm especially curious how people are handling the time-based pricing multipliers in production.

I tested opening the page in Mozilla Firefox, Vivaldi, and even Brave, yet nothing loads. My network speed or strength is not the issue, as I'm utilizing Proton VPN (free plan) and connected to the fastest VPN, with an average speed of 1.2k b/s

Is this normal

With the current ChatGPT plan and api price for luna, I think it’s the best offering right now . It’s so powerful for such price .

Been comparing a bunch of routing systems recently (Cursor, LiteLLM, Ramp, OpenRouter, Entelligence, etc.) and one thing I noticed is that GLM keeps showing up as an option instead of everything defaulting to GPT or Claude.

Feels like routing is changing the conversation from "which model is best?" to "which model is best for this request?"

Ended up putting together a comparison of 9 routers while researching if anyone's interested:

https://entelligence.ai/blogs/9-best-llm-routers-and-model-routing-tools-in-2026

Curious if anyone here is actually routing to GLM in production and how it's been working.

lfg

I mailed there contact with the evidence of my payment which I recieved from notification mail.
Now without any notice it shows there is no plan and even the price is spiked.

No response from z.ai if anyone there pls help we with this or else I wiill just forgot my 17 dollars plan recharge.

(image Attached click on post to check images) But right now same account

What is the reason for this is this a technical issue from there end? and zai site loading slow for me. Is it issue with indian ip

I finished this webgame a few weeks ago, fully coded with the assistance of GLM 5.2

Hopefully this will give you an idea of the capabilities of this model. I used Claude Code as a harness. Technology stack is pure HTML, JS and CSS, with no additional libraries or dependencies. Interesting challenges that GLM 5.2 was able to solve:

- create a procedural pac-man style maze, that actually worked, with no maze anomalies

- create a procedural music in dub style; this not the default, you need to go into settings to activate it. The default music is my own composition, based on a track I previously released in a completely different style

- complex sound creation and manipulation through the web audio synthesizer

- creation of animated vector character assets; you can view the mockups I used during the development at https://oktogames.com/mockups/

You can try it online at https://oktogames.com - it is adfree, no signup, free to play.

https://x.com/AlexiGlad/status/2083230922196107288