GLM-4.5 API pricing

Z.ai model · context 128,000 tokens · max output 32,000 · text only. Data last changed 2026-10-08. Official pricing ↗ · Data synced from the LiteLLM price list 2026-10-08.

Input	$0.60 / 1M tokens
Output	$2.20 / 1M tokens

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What it costs per month

Scenario (per month)	GLM-4.5
Customer support chatbot 5,000 req/day · 1,200 in · 400 out · cache 60%	$240
RAG over documents 2,000 req/day · 8,000 in · 600 out · cache 30%	$367
Coding agent 1,500 req/day · 25,000 in · 2,000 out · cache 80%	$873
Deep reasoning 800 req/day · 3,000 in · 6,000 out · cache 20%	$360
Batch processing 50,000 req/day · 1,500 in · 150 out · batch	$1,845

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Cheaper alternatives

Lowest monthly cost for the chatbot scenario among non-reasoning models:

Ministral 3b (latest) — $14.28/mo
Ministral 8b (latest) — $21.42/mo
Devstral Small (latest) — $26.28/mo
Ministral 14b (latest) — $28.56/mo
GPT-4o mini — $54.90/mo

Comparisons

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Price history

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