Zhipu AI launched a push for ZCode, its coding environment powered by GLM-5.2, as an alternative to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
The company is emphasizing long-context support for complex coding tasks and is offering new customers a five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens per day.
The launch shows how quickly coding-agent competition is spreading beyond U.S. model providers, with price and token quotas becoming major points of differentiation.