Funding

Zhipu AI raises $4B in a Hong Kong share sale

Zhipu AI pricing

Zhipu AI raised $4B via a Hong Kong share offering months after its January IPO, following a reported ~1,500% stock rise.

Reuters (2026-07-08), with corroborating coverage from The Edge Malaysia and Crypto Briefing, reported Zhipu AI’s $4B Hong Kong share sale, months after its January IPO and following a large share-price run-up.

Relevant as funding context for its aggressive domestic token pricing. No rate change was confirmed on the pricing page this run.

From Zhipu AI's pricing timeline
GLM Coding Plan repriced to $18/$72/$160 and the API card expands to GLM-5.2

The GLM Coding Plan moves from a quarterly ~$10/$30/$80-a-month card to list prices of $18 (Lite), $72 (Pro) and $160 (Max) per month, with a billing-term discount ladder — monthly −10% ($16.2/$64.8/$144), quarterly −20% ($14.4/$57.6/$128), yearly −30% ($12.6/$50.4/$112). Quotas are restated as relative multiples (Pro = 5x Lite usage, Max = 20x Lite usage) instead of prompts-per-5-hours. In parallel the docs price card adds a premium top end — GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.1 at $1.4 in / $4.4 out, GLM-5 at $1 / $3.2, GLM-5-Turbo at $1.2 / $4.0, GLM-4.5-X at $2.2 / $8.9 — plus per-image, per-video, per-use web search and per-agent SKUs.

About Zhipu AI
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) bills its GLM models per million tokens: GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.1 at $1.4 input / $4.4 output, GLM-5 at $1 / $3.2, GLM-4.7 / GLM-4.6 / GLM-4.5 at $0.6 / $2.2, and GLM-4.5-Air at $0.2 / $1.1.

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Zhipu AI pricing history

  1. Jul 2026
    GLM Coding Plan repriced to $18/$72/$160 and the API card expands to GLM-5.2
  2. Jun 2026
    Live snapshot: dual USD/RMB cards + free Flash tiers
  3. Feb 2026
    Coding Plan first-purchase discounts removed
  4. Jan 2026
    Hong Kong IPO — first foundation-model lab to list globally
  5. Oct 2025
    GLM-4.6 released at the same headline rate
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