Coding GLM 5
Z.AI · text → text
Only supports OpenAI-compatible formats.
Input$0.06 /M
Output$0.22 /M
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Coding GLM 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Coding GLM 5 from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Coding GLM 5
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.06
$1.69
Output /M
$0.22
$5.07
Cache read /M
-
$0.169
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
131,072
131,072
Time to First Token
4.5 s
12.5 s
Throughput
10.7 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
February 12, 2026
August 3, 2026
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
coding-glm-5qwen3.8-max
Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
coding-glm-5qwen3.8-max
1420146015001540
Overall
14571482
Coding
14981498
Math
14431443
Hard prompts
14781478
Instruction following
14471447
Multi-turn
14731473
Creative writing
14461446
Longer query
14701470
Chinese
15241524
English
14711471
WebDev Arena
coding-glm-5qwen3.8-max
1400148015601640
Overall
14301672
React
14211421
HTML
14431443
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Coding GLM 5
$6.90 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Coding GLM 5, Qwen3.8 Max?
Coding GLM 5: $0.22/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
Coding GLM 5: 4.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Coding GLM 5 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on Coding GLM 5 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s and Coding GLM 5 at 10.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Coding GLM 5 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call Coding GLM 5 and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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