UiPath vs Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

UiPath — Application · Public · $7.2B mkt cap · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Z.ai (Zhipu AI) — Foundation Models · Public · $58.6B mkt cap · 4 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

UiPath Test Cloud and GLM Coding Plan do comparable work on agentic coding; larger scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

4 of 7 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, data analysis and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — Z.ai (Zhipu AI): $58.6B market cap, against UiPath's $7.2B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldUiPathZ.ai (Zhipu AI)
Market cap$7.2B$58.6B Z.ai (Zhipu AI) has 8.2× more
Employees3,9811,094 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) has 3.6× fewer
Founded20052019 14 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersNew York, USABeijing, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingData analysisWorkflow automation

Not verified for Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · 3

Document extractionModel inferenceModel training

Recorded for UiPath. Z.ai (Zhipu AI)’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for UiPath · 9

Code generationImage generationPresentation generationKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationTranslationVideo generationSearch answers

Recorded for Z.ai (Zhipu AI). UiPath’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

UiPath

Application

UiPath AutopilotApplication

Assistant that builds and runs automations from natural-language instructions inside the UiPath platform.

UiPath Communications MiningApplication

Extracts intent, sentiment and context data from messages and communications, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath Document UnderstandingApplication

Extracts and interprets data from documents using AI, part of the UiPath IXP platform.

UiPath IXPApplication

Intelligent Xtraction & Processing: classifies documents and communications of any layout, extracts and validates the fields, and hands the result to UiPath's agents and workflows as automation-ready data.

UiPath Maestro CaseApplication

Case-management capability of UiPath Maestro for document-heavy cases combining agents and people.

UiPath Maestro FlowApplication

Orchestrates AI agents and deterministic workflows together within UiPath Maestro.

UiPath Process IntelligenceApplication

Discovers and analyzes business processes to find automation opportunities.

UiPath ScreenPlayApplication

Executes interface automations from natural-language instructions.

Developer tool

UiPath AI CenterDeveloper tool

Embeds machine-learning models into UiPath automations, with cloud or on-premises deployment and a 60-day free trial.

UiPath Test CloudDeveloper tool

Creates, executes and manages software tests with AI, for both automations and applications.

Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

Application

AMinerApplication

AI research assistant built on Zhipu's GLM models that performs academic and scholar search, AI-assisted paper reading, literature-review generation with citations, and scholarly question answering.

AutoGLMApplication

Deep-research assistant that searches and scrapes source websites to produce structured research reports and can emit the result as a slide deck or web page, with browser automation and video summarisation.

Z.aiApplication

Assistant built on the GLM models, covering chat, web search and document work.

Zhipu QingyanApplication

Zhipu's Chinese-market consumer AI assistant and agent built on the GLM model family, covering dialogue, writing, coding, translation and multimodal input.

Developer tool

GLM Coding PlanDeveloper tool

Flat-rate monthly subscription providing GLM model access inside third-party coding agents and IDEs such as Claude Code, Codex, Cline, OpenCode, Cursor and Windsurf, billed separately from Z.ai's per-token API.

No counterpart

UiPath sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Z.ai (Zhipu AI) yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

UiPath MaestroAgent platform

Orchestrates agents, robots and people across a business process from one model of that process.

Platform

UiPath PlatformPlatform

Automation platform combining robotic process automation, orchestration and AI agents over enterprise workflows.

Z.ai (Zhipu AI) sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for UiPath yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

AutoClawAI agent

Locally installed AI agent application with 50+ preconfigured skills that performs document generation, data analysis, browser automation and messaging-app collaboration, running on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android and defaulting to the GLM-5.3 model.

Model API

Z.ai Model APIModel API

Hosted API for the GLM model family, billed per token.