AutoGLM
Canonical page on the main site: sinoaihub.com/agents/autoglm
Type
agent
Key facts
- Company: Zhipu AI
- Type: autonomous
- Capabilities: tool calling, computer use
- Open source: yes (Apache-2.0 (code); MIT (models))
- Pricing: Open-source framework free. AutoGLM-Phone API (BigModel model id autoglm-phone) limited-time free as of 2026-09-20; paid price after promotion not publicly disclosed.
Company
API Platform
Description
Zhipu AI's open-source phone-use autonomous agent (repo Open-AutoGLM). The VLM sees the phone screen, plans a chain-of-thought action sequence, and executes it via ADB (Android), HDC (HarmonyOS NEXT) or WebDriverAgent (iOS). First phone agent with true Phone Use capabilities (2024-10-25); AutoGLM 2.0 commercial product runs agents in cloud virtual phones. Research/learning use.
Agent Type
autonomous
Framework
Python framework (PhoneAgent API + CLI); model AutoGLM-Phone-9B built on the GLM-4.1V-9B family
Tool Calling
Yes
Computer Use
Yes
Memory
No
Planning
Yes
Api
Yes
Pricing
Open-source framework free. AutoGLM-Phone API (BigModel model id autoglm-phone) limited-time free as of 2026-09-20; paid price after promotion not publicly disclosed.
Deployment
both
Open Source
Yes
License
Apache-2.0 (code); MIT (models)
Github
https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM
Documentation
https://docs.bigmodel.cn/cn/guide/models/vlm/autoglm-phone.md
Use Cases
- Food delivery ordering and reordering
- Product purchase and cross-platform price comparison
- Travel planning (routes, flights/trains, hotels)
- News, music, video playback and social interactions
- Cloud-phone batch operations - notifications, likes, customer-service and attendance workflows
- AI-native phone research and GUI agent development
Limitations
- Research/learning use only; prohibited for illegal information gathering
- Sensitive pages (payment, password, banking) cannot be screenshotted - agent auto-detects and requests human takeover
- Android 7.0+ with developer mode + USB debugging required; ADB Keyboard needed for Android text input
- iOS support requires separate WebDriverAgent setup
- Local deployment needs ~24GB+ VRAM GPU
- No persistent-memory feature documented in the README
Verification Status
verified
Last Verified
2026-09-20
Source history
No documented source-change events located as of 2026-09-20.
Sources
| evidence_id | source_name | source_url | source_type | published | verified | confidence | conflict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| src-agents-autoglm-1 | Open-AutoGLM GitHub repository | https://github.com/zai-org/Open-AutoGLM | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |
| src-agents-autoglm-2 | AutoGLM Goes Open Source blog | https://autoglm.z.ai/blog | Official | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |
| src-agents-autoglm-3 | AutoGLM-Phone model card (Hugging Face) | https://huggingface.co/zai-org/AutoGLM-Phone-9B | Model card | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |
| src-agents-autoglm-4 | BigModel AutoGLM-Phone API docs | https://docs.bigmodel.cn/cn/guide/models/vlm/autoglm-phone.md | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |