Lab

Z-AI

Combined 15.56% · 30d +9.88pp

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Z.ai (Zhipu) ships the GLM family, a widely adopted open-weights line for coding and general assistant workloads.

As of 2026-09-01, Tidelines tracks 3 Z-AI models on OpenRouter, together accounting for 15.56% of measured token share (+9.88pp over the last 30 days). Its most-used model is Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash at 11.57% of all tracked tokens, or 74% of Z-AI's own volume. The charts below break that down by model, tokens per day and estimated spend, updated daily.

Z-AI tokens per day & est. spend per day

Combined lab tokens × list price (30/70 blend). 78-day archive · list-rate estimate.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Z-AI's combined tokens grew ~82× over the last 78 days of archive to 2.52T/day.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/z-ai

Z-AI combined share of tokens

Sum of all Z-AI models' share on OpenRouter. 30d change: +9.88pp.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/z-ai

Model mix over time

Each Z-AI model as a share of the lab's combined tokens.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/z-ai

Where the tokens go vs where the dollars go

Each Z-AI model's share of the lab's tokens paired with its share of estimated spend (latest day, list-rate).

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash takes 74% of Z-AI's tokens but 16% of its estimated spend.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/z-ai

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-01, Z-AI's combined share on OpenRouter is 15.56% (+9.88pp / 30d). Source: Tidelines.

Models

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
ModelShareTokens/dEst. $/d7d Δ30d Δ$/M out
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash11.57%1.9T$370K+9.61+9.61$0.25
Z.ai: GLM 5.32.06%334B$1.17M+1.09+1.52$4.40
Z.ai: GLM 5.21.94%313B$757K-0.83-1.25$3.04

as of 2026-09-01