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Music & audio productionGLM (Z.ai) for music & audio production
Chinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.
GLM (Z.ai) is not on our list for music & audio production. Usable for general work, but first look at the options we recommend for music & audio production.
- GDPR profileOur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data: EU hosting possible, no training on your data for business use, and self-hosting available. Caution applies to a model with a documented problem, such as an investigation by a regulator. How we measure
- GDPR: Caution
- QualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measure
- 1483Elo, independent
- Editorial scoreOur own assessment on 10 of suitability for professional work, price and privacy. This is a judgement, not a measurement; that is why it always sits alongside the Elo. How we measure
- 7,7
- Entry price
- Free
What GLM (Z.ai) does in music & audio production
- Mixing and mastering: AI assistants suggest EQ, compression and loudness based on genre or a reference track, and the engineer steers the result
- Stem separation and restoration: isolate vocals, drums and instruments from a mix for remixes, practice, sampling or cleaning up old recordings
- Composing and generating: create background music, demos and variations for video, games, podcasts and advertising
- Catalogue management: automatically tag tracks by genre, mood and instrument, find similar music and detect AI-generated music
- Top performance on coding and agent benchmarks at a fraction of the price
- GLM-5.2 is fully open-weight under the MIT licence
- 1 million tokens of context on the flagship
- Affordable Coding Plan subscriptions for tools such as Claude Code
GLM (Z.ai) has a concrete GDPR concern. Parent company Zhipu (Beijing) falls under Chinese data and security legislation, regardless of where the servers are located. For sensitive data, self-hosting the MIT-licensed weights is the recommended mitigation. Weigh this heavily before deploying it in music & audio production.
Confidentiality and GDPR
GDPR: CautionWith AI music, check the licence per subscription first. With AIVA, copyright in the free plan and the Standard plan sits with AIVA itself; only the Pro plan gives you the copyright. Suno allows commercial use only in paid plans, and according to its privacy statement it uses submissions and content to train its models, with storage on servers in the US. Mubert tracks may not be released as standalone releases on Spotify or other streaming services. If you do not want your recordings used for training: LALAL.AI (Switzerland) says it does not use uploaded files for AI training, and plug-ins such as sonible smart:EQ and iZotope Ozone work inside your own DAW. Do not upload unreleased work from clients or labels without their permission, and record in your contract whether and how you use AI.
The international service Z.ai runs through JINGSHENG HENGXING TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore); personal data is in principle processed in Singapore. According to the data processing agreement, API content is processed in real time and not stored. GLM-5.2 is open-weight under MIT and can therefore be fully self-hosted or hosted through an EU provider.
Prices
Other models for music & audio production
Claude for music & audio productionAnthropic · editorial 9.01506
Gemini for music & audio productionGoogle · editorial 8.61527
ChatGPT for music & audio productionOpenAI · edition 8.91485
Le Chat (Mistral) for music & audio productionMistral AI · editorial 8.41426We don't know of a professional tool for music & audio production that runs publicly on GLM (Z.ai).
Questions about GLM (Z.ai) for music & audio production
- Is GLM (Z.ai) suitable for music & audio production?
- Not specifically. GLM (Z.ai) is not on our list for music & audio production; it is broadly usable, but first look at the options we recommend for music & audio production. Keep a professional in the loop for every use.
- May I put confidential data into GLM (Z.ai)?
- With AI music, first check the licence per subscription. With AIVA, copyright sits with the free plan and the Standard plan with AIVA itself; only the Pro plan gives you the copyright. Suno allows commercial use only on paid plans, and according to its privacy statement Suno uses submissions and content to train its models, with storage on servers in the US. You may not release Mubert tracks as standalone releases on Spotify or other streaming services. If you don't want your recordings used for training: LALAL.AI (Switzerland) says it does not use uploaded files for AI training, and plugins such as sonible smart:EQ and iZotope Ozone work in your own DAW. Don't upload unreleased work from clients or labels without their permission, and record in your contract whether and how you use AI. The international service of Z.ai runs via JINGSHENG HENGXING TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore); personal data is in principle processed in Singapore. According to the data processing agreement, API content is processed in real time and not stored. GLM-5.2 is open-weight under MIT and can therefore be hosted entirely yourself or via an EU provider.
- How much does GLM (Z.ai) cost?
- There is Z.ai Chat (Free), GLM Coding Plan Lite ($18 / month), API, GLM-5.3 ($1.40 / $4.40 per 1M). Check current prices on the official site.
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