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GLM 4.5: price, performance and context
Open GLM 4.5 by Z.ai costs $0.60 per 1M input and $2.20 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 12.8 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 131 of 212.
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Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.60
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.20
- Context window
- 131.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 98.3K tokens
- Performance index
- 12.8 points · rank 131 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $1.15 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- Dec 2024
- In the catalog since
- Jul 25, 2025
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 7,800 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 9,700 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.003 | 3,200 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.006 | 1,800 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.064 | 160 |
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