According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, Zhiyu raised the prices of the entire GLM Coding Plan overseas version by 80%-140% on April 11. The Max monthly fee increased from $80 to $160, Pro from $30 to $72, and Lite from $10 to $18 (all prices include a 10% invitation discount). The same Max package is priced at 469 yuan (approximately $68) domestically, making the overseas version more than double the domestic price after the increase. Additionally, with the release of GLM-5.1, the API prices were adjusted by 10%, marking the third price increase by Zhiyu in 2026. Overseas developer Lex posted on X, stating that this 'foreigner tax' is outrageous. He found that by paying through WeChat or Alipay, one can purchase the domestic version, and the API key obtained can also be used overseas without any regional lock, indicating that the price difference is purely a pricing strategy. The comments section saw polarized debates: opponents argued that all overseas endpoints are actually hosted in Singapore, and the infrastructure costs are not higher; supporters claimed that the payment, risk control, and compliance costs in overseas markets should be borne by local users, and regional differential pricing is an industry norm. The continuous price increases are backed by product reputation. Victor Mustar, product head at Hugging Face, posted on X that he wrote a 531-line Three.js racing game from scratch using GLM-5.1, which includes a real drifting physics engine and four AI personalities, with no visual aids and the model self-iterating and debugging over 20 times, believing its performance surpasses that of Claude Code combined with Opus 4.6, and predicting that this model will be widely discussed. However, the price increase comes at a cost. OpenRouter data shows that the GLM series ranking has gradually declined from third globally when GLM-5 was released in February, dropping to 15th place by April 15. The issue with the domestic version is not its price, but its availability; the Max package sells out instantly each day, and reselling services have appeared on Xianyu.