Qwen3.6 Plus vs GLM-5: API price and specs

GLM-5 is 78% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on input price.

GLM-5 is 87% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on output price.

GLM-5 is 83% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

GLM-5 has a 4.9% larger context than Qwen3.6 Plus.

Field	Qwen3.6 Plus	GLM-5
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.28 +360%	$0.06
Median input, per 1M	$0.50	$1.00 +100%
Lowest output, per 1M	$1.65 +650.5%	$0.22
Median output, per 1M	$3.00	$3.20 +6.7%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.61 +482.9%	$0.10
Context	1M +4.6%	1M
Max output	66K +67.7%	203K
Providers	20 +47.4%	38
Regions	GLOBAL	APAC, EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	yes	yes
Cheapest provider	empiriolabs	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, aihubmix, aiml, alibaba-coding-plan, alibaba-coding-plan-cn, cometapi, edenai, kilo, meganova, moark, ofox, opencode, openrouter, orcarouter, requesty, togetherai, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 Plus or GLM-5?

GLM-5 is 78% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on input price. GLM-5 is 87% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on output price. GLM-5 is 83% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.6 Plus or GLM-5?

Qwen3.6 Plus: 1M tokens; GLM-5: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.6 Plus and GLM-5?