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Z.ai
★ 7k+Open models and developer tools from Z.ai (Zhipu), including the GLM family, coding plugins, and APIs for agentic apps.
Z.ai does the job of OpenAI and Anthropic API, self-hosted. It is Apache-2.0-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and running it properly takes real ops work. OpenAI bills $20+ for it. 7k+ stars on GitHub.
Open-source replacement for OpenAI, Anthropic API.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Hard
- The paid one costs
- $20+
- GitHub stars
- 7k+
Is it actually a replacement?
We have not written a verdict on OpenAI or Anthropic API yet, so this page says what Z.ai is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.
Z.ai questions
Is Z.ai open source?
Yes — it is released under Apache-2.0.
Can I self-host Z.ai?
Yes — we rate it hard to self-host.