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GLM 4.5V: price, performance and context

Open GLM 4.5V by Z.ai costs $0.60 per 1M input and $1.80 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 65.5K tokens in one request (≈ 200 pages of text) and scores 7.6 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 178 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:37 UTC · z-ai/glm-4.5v

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.60
Output / 1M tokens
$1.80
Context window
65.5K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
7.6 points · rank 178 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$1.05 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2024
In the catalog since
Aug 11, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0019,300
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00111,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0033,500
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0052,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go–does not fit the context

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