Short-form text-to-video, image animation, start-and-end-frame transitions, advertising, marketing, realistic scenes, and 3D-style video generation
Type
Video Generation
Speed
7/10
Multimodal
Image input
Media output
Status
Current and available through the Z.ai video-generation API
Input
$0.20 per video
Output
$0.20 per video
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Long-horizon software engineering, repository-scale coding, code agents, complex refactoring, large-document analysis, research implementation, and tool-using workflows.
Type
Reasoning
Context
1M
Reasoning
9/10
Speed
7/10
Tool use
Fine-tuning
Streaming
Status
Active; still listed in Z.AI API pricing and available as downloadable open weights, although GLM-5.3 is the newer flagship successor.
Input
$1.40 per 1 million input tokens; cached input $0.26 per 1 million tokens
Output
$4.40 per 1 million output tokens
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Complex software engineering, large codebases, long-horizon coding agents, terminal workflows, technical research, and authorized cybersecurity analysis
Type
Reasoning
Context
1M
Reasoning
9/10
Speed
6/10
Tool use
Fine-tuning
Streaming
Status
Current and available
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Multimodal coding agents, screenshot and interface understanding, long-context document work, visual verification, tool-assisted research, and cost-sensitive agent workflows
Type
Multimodal
Context
1M
Reasoning
9/10
Speed
9/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Current and available through the Z.ai API, GLM Coding Plan, and publicly released open weights
Input
$0.15 per 1 million input tokens; cached input $0.03 per 1 million tokens
Output
$0.50 per 1 million output tokens
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Hosted multilingual speech-to-text, short real-time transcriptions, captions, meeting snippets, voice input, customer-service audio, and terminology-aware transcription
Audio input
Streaming
Status
Current and publicly available through the Z.AI audio transcription API
Input
Approximately CNY 0.06 per minute; verify current account pricing
Output
Not separately priced; transcription is billed by audio duration according to reported listings
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Text-heavy posters, presentation graphics, educational diagrams, social-media layouts, image editing, and open-weight image-generation research
Type
Image Generation
Speed
3/10
Multimodal
Image input
Media output
Status
Current; available through the Z.ai API and as downloadable open weights
Input
$0.015 per image
Output
$0.015 per generated image
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High-volume OCR, PDF parsing, table and formula recognition, handwriting, receipts, forms, information extraction, and local document-processing pipelines
Type
Other
Reasoning
2/10
Speed
9/10
Multimodal
Image input
Fine-tuning
Status
Current; open-weight; available through hosted API and self-hosted deployment
Input
$0.03 per 1 million tokens
Output
$0.03 per 1 million tokens
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