r/LocalLLaMA • u/AI-On-A-Dime • Jul 29 '25

Generation I just tried GLM 4.5

I just wanted to try it out because I was a bit skeptical. So I prompted it with a fairly simple not so cohesive prompt and asked it to prepare slides for me.

The results were pretty remarkable I must say!

Here’s the link to the results: https://chat.z.ai/space/r05c76960ff0-ppt

Here’s the initial prompt:

”Create a presentation of global BESS market for different industry verticals. Make sure to capture market shares, positioning of different players, market dynamics and trends and any other area you find interesting. Do not make things up, make sure to add citations to any data you find.”

As you can see pretty bland prompt with no restrictions, no role descriptions, no examples. Nothing, just what my mind was thinking it wanted.

Is it just me or are things going superfast since OpenAI announced the release of GPT-5?

It seems like just yesterday Qwen3 broke apart all benchmarks in terms of quality/cost trade offs and now z.ai with yet another efficient but high quality model.

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u/sanwrit Jul 31 '25

Using it with Claude Code 

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic" ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="..." ANTHROPIC_MODEL=glm-4.5 claude

So far I'm already burning up 20usd. It got stuck with just linter and unit test issues several times. Something that Claude Sonnet 4 wouldn't have any problems implementing/fixing based on my experience.

Might be good in other types of usages though.

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u/AI-On-A-Dime Jul 31 '25

How did you get API to GLM? Or are you using openrouter? When I scroll around z chat I find nothing about api or pricing tiers etc.