Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs GLM-5: API price and specs

GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on input price.

GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on output price.

GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

GLM-5 has a 300% larger context than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.

Field	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct	GLM-5
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.22 +266.7%	$0.06
Median input, per 1M	$0.36	$1.00 +176.7%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.80 +263.6%	$0.22
Median output, per 1M	$1.58	$3.20 +103.2%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.38 +265.4%	$0.10
Context	262K +75%	1M
Max output	262K	203K +22.6%
Providers	23 +39.5%	38
Regions	EU, US	APAC, EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	audio, image, text, video	text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	yes
Cheapest provider	google-vertex	aihubmix

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, abacus, aihubmix, aiml, amazon-bedrock, cometapi, deepinfra, edenai, fastrouter, google-vertex, huggingface, io-net, jiekou, kilo, opencode, openrouter, requesty, siliconflow, togetherai, trustedrouter, vercel

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or GLM-5?

GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on input price. GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on output price. GLM-5 is 73% cheaper than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or GLM-5?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 262K tokens; GLM-5: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and GLM-5?