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24 alternatives to Z.ai

Official Playground for High-Performance GLM Models

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    GLM-4.5 Open-Source Agentic AI Model

    2025 · glm45.org · its alternatives →

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    A few days ago I found myself trying out GLM 5.2 and was really positively impressed. The capabilities and security I was getting from this LLM are similar to those I've gotten from models like Claude or GPT, and this really surprised me. But then I thought, "I wonder how it would work on a normal computer like mine," and above all, "I wonder if it would work without going into OOM on a computer like mine." So I started working with the help of agents to test this possibility. I started converting the model to int4, understanding MTP usage, and if possible implementing DSA for long context.…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Aymo AI▲170

    All-in-one AI Platform for Teams

    Jul 2026 · aymo.ai · its alternatives →

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    High-speed agentic model built specifically for OpenClaw

    Mar 2026 · docs.z.ai · its alternatives →

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    GLM-4.5▲294

    Unifying agentic capabilities in one open model

    2025 · z.ai · its alternatives →

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    GLM-5 | Zhipu AI's Next-Generation Large Language Model

    Feb 2026 · glm5.net · its alternatives →

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    Try it out! https://glhf.chat/ Hey HN! We’ve been working for the past few months on a website to let you easily run (almost) any open-source LLM on autoscaling GPU clusters. It’s free for now while we figure out how to price it, but we expect to be cheaper than most GPU offerings since we can run the models multi-tenant. Unlike Together AI, Fireworks, etc, we’ll run any model that the open-source vLLM project supports: we don’t have a hardcoded list. If you want a specific model or finetune, you don’t have to ask us for it: you can just paste the Hugging Face link in and…

    2024 · glhf.chat · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Jakub, a solo founder based in Warsaw. I’ve been building GoModel since December with a couple of contributors. It's an open-source AI gateway that sits between your app and model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic or others. I built it for my startup to solve a few problems: - track AI usage and cost per client or team - switch models without changing app code - debug request flows more easily - reduce AI spendings with exact and semantic caching How is it different? - ~17MB docker image - LiteLLM's image is more than 44x bigger ("docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:latest" ~…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The fast, easy and cheap OpenAI alternative

    2023 · lemonfox.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi! It's a complete product with integrations to Auth0, OpenAI, Google Cloud and Stripe, which consists of Next.js Web App, Node.js + Express Web API and Python + FastAPI AI API I've built this software, because I wanted to make money by selling tokens to enable users talking with the chatbot. But I think Google / Apple will include such AI-powered assistant in their products soon, so nobody will pay me for using it So I open source the product today and share it as a GNU GPL-2 licensed software I'm happy to assist in case if something is unclear or requires additional docs and answer…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modular Interface for visually interactive AI responses

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your Gen AI agent for multicloud cost management

    2024 · cloudgov.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build real-time conversational AI in minutes.

    2025 · zegocloud.com · its alternatives →

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    All major LLMs, curated by Infuzu AI

    2025 · infuzu.com · its alternatives →

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    Chat with leading AI models in one app

    Jul 2026 · chatgbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Use and compare GPT-6, Claude 5, Gemini 3 and more chatbots simultaneously

    2023 · chathub.gg · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm excited to share AnyLM, a desktop app I've been working on. I love tinkering with local LLMs (via Ollama and LMStudio) but often found myself wishing for a more polished, unified UI similar to what ChatGPT offers, where all my conversations are in one place. Out of that frustration I've built AnyLM, which aims to solve that by providing a single, native application (currently for Windows, with macOS and more planned) to interact with your local models from LM Studio/Ollama but also models from api providers like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. This has been a fun (and…

    2025 · anylm.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I've made an early version of ZigFormer, a small LLM implemented in Zig with no dependencies on external ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX. ZigFormer is modelled after a textbook LLM (like GPT-2 from OpenAI) and can be used as a Zig library as well as a standalone application to train a model and chat with it. This was mainly an educational project. I'm sharing it here in case others find it interesting or useful. Link to the project: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/zigformer

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Zeplik▲5

    Every AI model, one chat. GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok

    Jul 2026 · zeplik.ai · its alternatives →

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    Compare and access leading AI models like OpenAI o1 models

    2024 · jugemu.app · its alternatives →

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    Your Gateway to Affordable AI Models

    2024 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

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