GLM 4.5 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 23, 2026 at 08:08 AM

Overview

GLM 4.5 was released on July 25, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.350 per million input tokens and $1.55 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Z-ai.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.350

Output$1.55

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare GLM 4.5 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.5	$0.350	$1.550	—	—	—	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)	$0.300	$2.500	—	—	—	32,768	Try
TD Thedrummer	Cydonia 24B V4.1	$0.300	$0.500	—	—	—	131,072	Try
MI Mistral AI	Codestral 2508	$0.300	$0.900	—	—	—	256,000	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.5 Flash	$0.300	$2.500	49.5	80.9	68.3	1,048,576	Try
X Xai	Grok 3 Mini	$0.300	$0.500	—	—	—	131,072	Try
DS Deepseek	DeepSeek V3	$0.300	$1.200	—	—	—	163,840	Try
AM Amazon	Nova 2 Lite	$0.300	$2.500	34.6	74.3	60.3	1,000,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Flash	$0.300	$1.500	—	—	—	128,000	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 3 70B Instruct	$0.300	$0.300	18.8	57.1	40.1	65,536	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.6	$0.350	$1.500	56.1	78.4	63.2	202,752	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

GLM 4.5 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.350

Cheapest Input/M

$1.550

Cheapest Output/M

Chutes

Best Price

Provider Pricing

5 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
C Chutes Best Price	$0.350	$1.550	-
W WandB	$0.550	$2.000	-
Z Z.AI	$0.600	$2.200	97.7%
N Nebius	$0.600	$2.200	-
N Novita	$0.600	$2.200	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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