Head to head
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Z.ai: GLM 5
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google Ai Studio | Z.ai: GLM 5 Z Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $0.750 | $0.600 |
| Output $/M tokens | $3.75 | $1.92 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 205K |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| WM Score | 80 | 81 |
| Benchmark quality | 80.1 | 76.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 2 | 11 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 154 | 107.5 |
| Latency (ms) | 2095 | 817 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5 costs less per million input tokens — about 1.3× cheaper than Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash. Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on measured quality. Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.