Anthropic Pro vs Z.ai Coding Plan Lite: which is better value in August 2026?

Updated August 20, 2026 · generated from the open catalogue

Z.ai Coding Plan Lite returns 61.4x its price against 8.1x for Anthropic Pro, so on measured ceiling Z.ai Coding Plan Lite is the better value.

Anthropic ProZ.ai Coding Plan Lite
Price$20/mo $18/mo
AgentClaude Code GLM Coding Plan
Ceiling$161/mo $1,106/mo
Multiple8.1x 61.4x
Basisfrom published cap estimate
Quota publishedderived published

Anthropic Pro

The plan allows 550,000 credits per 5 hours and 5,000,000 credits per week.

Z.ai Coding Plan Lite

The plan allows 80 prompts per 5 hours, 400 prompts per week and 10,000 credits per week.

The honest caveat

A ceiling is what the plan allows, not what you will use. If you write code an hour a day, neither plan's cap is the thing that decides this and the cheaper one wins by default. The multiple matters when you are the kind of user who hits limits.

Prices and caps here change without notice, which is why this page is regenerated from the catalogue on every deploy rather than written once. Compare the raw entries at claude-pro and glm-lite.