GLM 4.5V Pricing - Cost Calculator

GLM-4.5V is Z.aiโ€™s 106B-parameter open vision-language model for multimodal reasoning, video understanding, document analysis, visual grounding, and GUI agents.

Released 11 August 2025, GLM 4.5V is a video-generation model from Z.ai. It generates text from text, image and video input. 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 1, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Aug 11, 2025
Knowledge Cutoff
Dec 31, 2024
Context Length
65,536
Max Output
16,384
Modalities
Text Image Video → Text
Capabilities
Tool use Open weights

Where is GLM 4.5V a perfect fit?

GLM-4.5V extends GLM-4.5-Air with vision capabilities and reinforcement learning, combining image, video, document, chart, spatial, coding, and GUI reasoning in a large mixture-of-experts multimodal model. It is a perfect fit for below use-cases:
- Complex image understanding and visual reasoning
- Video understanding and event recognition
- OCR and document extraction
- Long documents and research reports
- Charts, tables and diagrams
- Screenshot/UI understanding
- GUI agents and desktop automation
- Visual grounding and spatial reasoning
- Front-end/web coding from screenshots
- Multimodal agent workflows

GLM-4.5V is the vision counterpart to the GLM-4.5-Air generation: a relatively efficient 12B-active MoE model that adds full-spectrum visual reasoning, video understanding, grounding and GUI-agent capabilities rather than merely adding image input to a text model.

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(USD 0.6000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 1.8000 per 1M tokens)

Your GLM 4.5V Cost Estimate

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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens

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๐Ÿ“ค Output (1000 ร— $1.800000) โ€”

Cost Breakdown

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Pricing

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Z.ai LogoZ.aiTextStandard$0.6000$1.8000$0.110065,536 tokensโ†’

Benchmarks

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

Artificial Analysis

Higher is better ยท benchmarked by Artificial Analysis
Detailed scores
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Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence across reasoning, knowledge & math evals
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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 57.3%

Graduate-level questions in biology, chemistry & physics

Humanity's Last Exam 3.5%

Expert-level questions across many academic domains

IFBench 28.6%

Precise following of detailed instructions

ฯ„ยฒ-Bench Telecom 19.6%

Tool-using agent tasks in a telecom support setting

CritPt 0%

Unpublished physics research reasoning problems

AA-LCR 0%

Long-context reasoning across large inputs

Coding
Terminal-Bench Hard 6.8%

Complex command-line and terminal workflows

Knowledge
Omniscience Accuracy 18.2%

Breadth of factual knowledge across domains

Omniscience Non-Hallucination 9.8%

How reliably the model avoids fabricated answers

All variants
Variant GPQA Diamond Humanity's Last Exam IFBench ฯ„ยฒ-Bench Telecom AA-LCR Terminal-Bench Hard CritPt Omniscience Accuracy Omniscience Non-Hallucination
GLM-4.5V (Non-reasoning) 57.3% 3.5% 28.6% 19.6% 0% 6.8% 0% 18.2% 9.8%
GLM-4.5V (Reasoning) 68.4% 6.3% 34.2% 22.5% 0% 5.3% 0% 20.8% 15.2%

FAQs about GLM 4.5V

How much does GLM 4.5V cost per 1M tokens?

GLM 4.5V costs $0.60 per million input tokens, and $1.80 per million output tokens.

What does a typical workload cost with GLM 4.5V?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each โ€” 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total โ€” costs $2.10 with GLM 4.5V at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use GLM 4.5V?

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

What is GLM 4.5V's context window?

GLM 4.5V has a context window of 65,536 tokens, and returns up to 16,384 tokens in a single response.

What input types does GLM 4.5V support?

GLM 4.5V accepts text, image and video input, and returns text.

What is GLM 4.5V's knowledge cutoff?

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