Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ZCode
Z.ai's official GLM-5.2 harness: a desktop agentic development environment to plan, code, review, and deploy, with a multi-agent workspace, subagents, Goal Mode, skills, MCP servers, a remote/cloud workspace, and an embedded headless CLI inside the app bundle.
Attributed output
GitHub public-attribution count, 2026-08-14
336Attributed outputGitHub public-attribution count, 2026-08-14Commits and PRs on public GitHub provably produced by this agent. Exact if it is visible through its own bot or workflow, an estimate if measured through attribution it declares (these can swing 30 to 40 percent between measurement runs at multi-million scale), and a floor either way.#35
Index rank
of 35 tracked agents
#35Index rankof 35 tracked agentsn/a
Business signal
No sourced business metric
n/aBusiness signalNo sourced business metricn/a
Entry price
No published pricing
n/aEntry priceNo published pricingNot published
GitHub stars
No public repo
Not publishedGitHub starsNo public repoNot published
npm demand/wk
Public npm counter
Not publishednpm demand/wkPublic npm counterWeekly package downloads as an install-demand floor; adjusted when the vendor's main install channel is no longer npm.Activity Over Time
Weekly attributed output on public GitHub. Output visible through the agent's own bot or workflow is exact; output measured through declared attribution is an estimate. Window: 2026-06-09 to 2026-08-03.
Market
Developer output
Public GitHub PRs attributed to ZCode
Derived from ZCode's tracked public GitHub series. A floor: work done under the developer's own identity, squash-merges, and private repositories are invisible.
Last full week (ending 2026-08-09): 37 agent-marked PRs (-33.9% week over week), search estimate.
Distinct users: 43 humans opened the 130 most recently sampled PRs, about 3 PRs per person.
Merge rate: 93.9% of its pull requests get merged (214 of 228 over 6 settled weeks, 2026-06-22 to 2026-08-02). The window ends about ten days back so recently-opened PRs have had time to merge.
GitHub review activity: 0.9% of its merged PRs had at least one GitHub review record before merging; the other 99.1% had none. This is a broad weekly signal and can include bot reviews; the human-review read below comes from the enriched PR sample.
In significant repos (company-owned or 10+ stars), 19.6% of its merged PRs got a human review. Across all sampled repos, the rate is 22.9%. Human review means a non-author, non-bot GitHub reviewer in the PR-lifecycle sample.
Median time to merge: 23 min. The unreviewed median is 0.28h. The human-reviewed median is 0.71h. From a 118-PR sample merged 2026-07-02 to 2026-07-31.
Test-inclusion: 55.1% of its sampled merged PRs touch a test file. This is a rough read on production readiness. 3 large PRs hit GitHub's 100-file path read cap, so treat this as a floor.
Snapshot 2026-08-14, confidence Medium, tracked since 2026-06-09, +13.1% over 7 days. Read the methodology.
- Index rank
- #35 of 35
- Demand share
- No public npm package
- Business signal
- No sourced business metric
- GitHub share
- No public repo
- npm channel
- No public npm package
All sourced signals (3)ExpandHide
| Signal | Value | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latest release | v3.2.4 (2026-07-03) | Official | High |
| Flagship model | GLM-5.2 — Terminal-Bench 2.1 81.0, SWE-bench Pro 62.1 (strongest open-source coding model) | Official | High |
| GLM-5 open weights | 6,129 GitHub stars (Apache-2.0) | Public metric | High |
Where ZCode Works
Share of ZCode's own classified sampled work by segment; countries reflect where its PR authors are based. Full breakdowns: Languages, Frameworks, Industries, Map.
Pricing And Economics
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The ZCode desktop app is a free download; model usage runs on the GLM Coding Plan subscription (Lite / Pro / Max), with GLM Coding Max at $160/month ($1,344/year). The same plan can also be pointed at Claude Code, Cline, and OpenCode.
- The ZCode desktop app is free; model usage is metered against a GLM Coding Plan tier (Lite / Pro / Max).
- GLM Coding Max is $160/month or $1,344/year (save ~30% annually); Max includes glm-5.2, glm-5-turbo, glm-4.7, and glm-4.5-air.
- GLM-5.2 shipped across all Coding Plan tiers on 2026-06-13 with a 1M-token context (up from 200K in GLM-5.1); the weights were open-sourced on Hugging Face under an MIT license.
- The GLM Coding Plan is portable to other officially supported harnesses (Claude Code, Cline, OpenCode), so it is not exclusive to the ZCode app.
Product
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Capabilities
Tradeoffs
- GLM-first and Z.ai-account bound (built around the GLM Coding Plan)
- Desktop app ships for macOS (Apple Silicon/Intel) and Windows (x64/ARM64); Linux only via a beta group
- The harness app is proprietary even though the GLM-5.2 weights are open (MIT)