Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost

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Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a free five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens per day, and subscribers receive about 1.5 times more token quota through July 2026. The article Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder .

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