# Zhipu AI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zhipu-ai/  
**Website:** https://www.zhipuai.cn/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Zhipu AI (Z.ai / BigModel) is a Chinese AI research lab and the developer of the GLM (General Language Model) family. The Z.ai open platform exposes chat completions, vision, image generation, video generation, web search, audio transcription, embeddings, fine-tuning, and agent APIs across the GLM-5, GLM-4.7, GLM-4.6, and GLM-4.5 model series.

## Kin Score — 29.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 24.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Zhipu AI Agents API** — The Agents API from Zhipu AI — 3 operation(s) for agents.
- **Zhipu AI Paas API** — The Paas API from Zhipu AI — 10 operation(s) for paas.
- **Zhipu AI Tools API API** — The Tools API API from Zhipu AI — 1 operation(s) for tools api.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Zhipu Ai Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 13 acting

## Security (3)

- **Zhipu Ai Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Zhipu Ai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Zhipu Ai Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Zhipu Ai Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, GLM, ChatGLM, Multi-Modal

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/zhipu-ai/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.