Head to head
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Z.ai: GLM 5
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba | Z.ai: GLM 5 Z Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $6.00 | $3.20 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 205K |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| WM Score | 89 | 81 |
| Benchmark quality | 91.7 | 76.6 |
| Hosts serving it | 1 | 11 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 34 | 101 |
| Latency (ms) | 1324 | 693 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5 costs less per million input tokens — about 2.0× cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on measured quality. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max 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.