At its 2025 earnings briefing, Zhipu AI CEO Zhang Peng said the company raised
API pricing by 83% in Q1 2026, yet demand remained strong with usage volumes
increasing 400%, indicating continued supply tightness.
He added that Zhipu has become one of China’s largest paid token consumption
providers, and that its GLM models have been deployed across major global cloud
platforms including Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Fireworks and Cerebras.