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ZCode is Z.ai's free desktop agentic development environment built around GLM-5.2. Here is the developer setup, pricing breakdown, and how it compares to Claude Code and Cursor.
GLM-5.2 ships under an MIT license, so it is hosted everywhere - and a few places run it for free or nearly free right now. Here is every way to access Z.ai's open-weights coding model, from OpenCode Go referral credits and Devin to the cheapest per-token routes on OpenRouter, Fireworks, and DeepInfra, plus local Ollama.
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.2 in mid-June with a usable 1M-token context window, two thinking-effort levels, and MIT open weights now released. Here is the setup guide for Claude Code, pricing breakdown, and what to test before the benchmarks arrive.
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