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… Z.ai has a habit of releasing smaller companions to its flagship models GLM-4.5-Air came a few weeks after GLM-4.5 last year , and I'd be surprised if the same pattern doesn't play out here. …
… Hermes lists MiniMax and Z AI's GLM as native providers alongside the usual OpenRouter and OpenAI-style endpoints, so setting up GLM with a profile is about as involved as changing the key. …
… GLM-5.1, though, I unfortunately can't recommend at all right now. …
… GLM-4.6V-Flash is the model that takes care of this problem. …
… As for some of the other models, GLM-4.7 arrived recently, though it's nowhere near as powerful for coding as GLM-5.1. …
… Less capable models like GLM-5 worked better with rigid, assigned roles and an orchestrator hierarchy. …
… You can also swap in other local engines from the settings if you want something different or a different profile - Gemma 4 E4B is actually the recommended one, but Qwen 3.5, Nemotron 3, GLM 4.7 and the larger Gemma variants are all there too. …
… OpenCode is the most mature, with the largest community and an optional $ 10-per-month subscription that bundles DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and other Chinese open-weight models if you're not using your own API keys. …
… When Claude's limits got too unpredictable, I looked at the alternatives on the market and tried Z.ai's GLM coding plan, one of the wave of inexpensive Chinese subscriptions pitched straight at people priced out of Claude Code, but it banned my account . …