Z.ai's open-weights flagship and the highest-scoring open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (51), with a 58 Coding Agent Index, MIT licence, 1M-token context and pricing of $1.40/$4.40 per million tokens ($0.32 per task).
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The strongest open-weights option on independent benchmarks — frontier-adjacent capability with an MIT licence and low task costs.
Pros
- Best open-weights Intelligence Index score (51)
- MIT licence — self-hostable
- Low $0.32 cost per task
Cons
- Coding Agent Index (58) trails the proprietary frontier
- Hosted-API ecosystem less mature than OpenAI/Anthropic
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