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GLM-4.5
zhipuai·zhipuai/glm-4.5·GA·Open weights·glm series
Hybrid-reasoning GLM release that made the 4.5 line broadly useful
At a glance
Official price$0.60 / $2.20 per 1M
Cache read $0.11 · Z.AI
Lowest paid$0.286 / $1.14
302.AI Gateway · 2.1× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context131,072
⚠ Providers report 128,000–131,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit98,304
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2025-07-28 / 2025-07-28
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence19.7
Value39
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed—
TTFT—
Value formulaIQ 19.7 ÷ min blended $0.500 = 39
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 18 providers16 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ModelScope ZhipuAI/GLM-4.5 | Cloud | Free | — | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | ||
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.286 | $1.14 | — | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.30 | $0.15 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| ZenMux | Gateway | $0.35 | $1.54 | $0.07 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.11 | $0 | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| Hugging Face zai-org/GLM-4.5 | Cloud | $0.60 | $2.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.11 | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| Jiekou.AI | Gateway | $0.60 | $2.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.11 | — | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
| Z.AIOfficial | First-party | $0.60 | $2.20 | $0.11 | $0 | 131,072 | 98,304 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1NanoGPT$107.00
2ZenMux$113.40
3302.AI$114.30
4OrcaRouter$171.20
5Impossibl$171.20
6OpenRouter$171.20
7Z.AI · Official$171.20
1 more channels offer $0 (ModelScope); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to NanoGPT to save $64.20/mo (37%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark3 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | — | 26.3 | index | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | — | 34.8 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | — | 22 | success rate | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = noneeffort = high
3 / 18 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
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