Head to head
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra vs Z.ai: GLM 5
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Openai | Z.ai: GLM 5 Z Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $10.00 | $0.600 |
| Output $/M tokens | $50.00 | $1.92 |
| Context window | 1.1M | 205K |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| WM Score | 88 | 81 |
| Benchmark quality | 92.7 | 76.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 2 | 10 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 54 | 93.5 |
| Latency (ms) | 3190 | 792 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5 costs less per million input tokens — about 16.7× cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra 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.