Models

GLM 4.5 Vision vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare GLM 4.5 Vision from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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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GLM 4.5 Vision
Z.AI · text, image, video → text

GLM-4.5V is a vision-language foundational model designed for multimodal agent applications. Based on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, it has 106 billion parameters and 12 billion active parameters. It delivers outstanding performance in video understanding, image question answering, OCR, and document parsing, and achieves significant improvements in front-end web encoding, basic reasoning, and spatial reasoning.

Input$0.27 /M
Output$0.82 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GLM 4.5 Vision
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.27
$0.34
Output /M
$0.82
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.27
$0.03
Context length
64,000
983,616
Max output
16,384
131,072
Time to First Token
8.4 s
2.4 s
Throughput
81.2 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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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.

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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
glm-4.5vqwen3.8-max-preview
1280136014401520
Overall
13541481
Coding
14041520
Math
13591504
Hard prompts
13761506
Instruction following
13421478
Multi-turn
13591496
Creative writing
13111469
Longer query
13411497
Chinese
13471545
English
13811486
Vision
glm-4.5vqwen3.8-max-preview
1140120012601320
Overall
11561302
OCR
11581317
Diagram
11691331
Homework
11701335

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.

GLM 4.5 Vision
$28.77 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 4.5 Vision, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

GLM 4.5 Vision: $0.82/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; GLM 4.5 Vision: 1404 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s 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?

GLM 4.5 Vision accepts 64,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,384 tokens on GLM 4.5 Vision and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GLM 4.5 Vision at 81.2 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GLM 4.5 Vision accepts text, image and video input; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GLM 4.5 Vision and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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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