GLM 4.5 API Pricing Calculator & Benchmarks

GLM-4.5 is Z.ai’s open-weight hybrid reasoning model for coding, intelligent agents, tool use, long-context analysis, and complex technical workflows.

Released 26 July 2025, GLM 4.5 is a chat model from Z.ai. It works across a 128,000-token context window and returns up to 98,304 tokens, accepting text and returning text. Training data ends 31 December 2024, and the model reasons step by step. It costs $0.60 per million input tokens through Z.ai.

Last updated Oct 27, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Jul 26, 2025
Knowledge Cutoff
Dec 31, 2024
Context Length
128,000
Max Output
98,304
Modalities
Text → Text
Capabilities
Tool use Prompt caching Open weights

Where is GLM 4.5 a perfect fit?

GLM-4.5 unifies reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities in a 355-billion-parameter MoE model, supporting both deliberate thinking and fast non-thinking responses across complex tasks. It can be a perfect model for below use-cases:

- Software engineering — coding, debugging, testing, and repository-level development
- AI agents — autonomous multi-step workflows and task execution
- Tool calling — function calling, APIs, and external-tool orchestration
- Complex reasoning — mathematics, science, logic, and technical analysis
- Deep search — research and web-browsing agents
- Frontend development — websites, interactive interfaces, and UI generation
- Full-stack development — frontend, backend, databases, and deployment
- Artifact generation — presentations, posters, HTML, SVG, and Python artifacts

Quick Model Estimate

(USD 0.6000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 2.2000 per 1M tokens)

Your GLM 4.5 Cost Estimate

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Z.ai LogoZ.aiTextStandard$0.6000$2.2000$0.1100128,000 tokens→

Benchmarks

Scores from standardized evaluations by Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Higher is better — the indices summarize overall ability, while the detailed scores break down performance on individual benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis

Higher is better · benchmarked by Artificial Analysis
Detailed scores
GLM-4.5 (Reasoning)
12.8
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence across reasoning, knowledge & math evals
Better than 10% of 32 models
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Coding Index
Coding ability across software-engineering evals
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Agentic Index
Tool use & multi-step agent task performance
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond 78.2%

Graduate-level questions in biology, chemistry & physics

Humanity's Last Exam 13%

Expert-level questions across many academic domains

IFBench 44.1%

Precise following of detailed instructions

τ²-Bench Telecom 43%

Tool-using agent tasks in a telecom support setting

CritPt 0%

Unpublished physics research reasoning problems

AA-LCR 52.7%

Long-context reasoning across large inputs

Coding
Terminal-Bench Hard 22%

Complex command-line and terminal workflows

Knowledge
Omniscience Accuracy 25.1%

Breadth of factual knowledge across domains

Omniscience Non-Hallucination 29.9%

How reliably the model avoids fabricated answers

Design Arena

Elo rating by arena & category
Variant Arena Category Elo Win % Percentile Avg time (ms)
glm-4.5 models 3d 1,167 59.7% 55 108,654
glm-4.5 models codecategories 1,163 54.4% 43 141,426
glm-4.5 models dataviz 1,159 53.3% 40 116,502
glm-4.5 models gamedev 1,145 54.4% 44 139,666
glm-4.5 models svg 1,093 50.8% 30 36,623
glm-4.5 models uicomponent 1,139 55% 37 102,045
glm-4.5 models website 1,168 53.7% 43 147,745

FAQs about GLM 4.5

How much does GLM 4.5 cost per 1M tokens?

GLM 4.5 costs $0.60 per million input tokens, and $2.20 per million output tokens.

What does a typical workload cost with GLM 4.5?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $2.30 with GLM 4.5 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use GLM 4.5?

GLM 4.5 is available through Z.ai, from $0.60 per million input tokens.

What is GLM 4.5's context window?

GLM 4.5 has a context window of 128,000 tokens, and returns up to 98,304 tokens in a single response.

What input types does GLM 4.5 support?

GLM 4.5 accepts text input, and returns text.

What is GLM 4.5's knowledge cutoff?

GLM 4.5's training data runs to 31 December 2024. It has no built-in knowledge of events after that date.