GLM Coding Plan Lite: $18/month

GLM Coding Plan Lite covers about 0.031 turns of balanced coding work a month, 0.0017 per dollar. That is the 37th most of the 37 plans with a usage figure. At $18 or less, Copilot Pro covers the most: about 33.

What it includes

Price	$18/month
Coding agent	Claude Code, Codex, ZCode
Limit, as Z.ai words it	2,000 credits per five hours and 10,000 per week.
Usage at API prices	$66–$176 a month, 3.7–9.8× the price
Evidence	Published · checked Nov 12, 2026
Strongest model	GLM-5.3, 31.7 on the Intelligence Index

Models

GLM-5.3 · up to 31.7
GLM-5.3-Flash · up to 27.8

Value by kind of work

Turns of mixed coding work the allowance covers in a month, each kind on the plan’s cheapest model that is good enough. How this is worked out.

Work mix	Turns a month	Per dollar
Light only (100% light)	125–309	6.9–17
Mostly light (40% normal, 60% light)	2.2–5.8	0.12–0.32
Balanced (5% frontier, 15% hard, 60% normal, 20% light)	0.019–0.05	0.001–0.0028
Mostly hard (10% frontier, 40% hard, 40% normal, 10% light)	0.0089–0.024	0.00049–0.0013

On the balanced mix: frontier work on GLM-5.3 (max reasoning), counting 0% of a turn; hard work on GLM-5.3 (max reasoning), counting 0% of a turn; normal work on GLM-5.3 (max reasoning), counting 1% of a turn; light work on GLM-5.3-Flash (default reasoning), counting 54% of a turn.

How the figure was obtained

Weekly credits converted with Z.ai's published token-to-credit formula and valued at GLM API prices. Low end: every token at the least favourable rate, all peak hours. High end: most favourable rate, all off-peak (half credits).

GLM Coding Plan

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Other GLM Coding Plan tiers: GLM Coding Plan Pro ($80) · GLM Coding Plan Max ($168)

At a similar price: Claude Team Standard ($20, about 1.3k turns) · Claude Pro ($20, about 1.1k turns) · Claude Pro yearly ($16.67, about 1.1k turns) · Google AI Pro ($19.99, about 293 turns)

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