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GLM 4.7 Flash (free) vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GLM 4.7 Flash (free) 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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GLM 4.7 Flash (free)
Z.AI · text → text

The glm-4.7-flash free model has usage restrictions to ensure stable service operation: a maximum of 5 requests per minute, no more than 500 requests per day, and a daily usage quota of 1 million tokens.

Input$0 /M
Output$0 /M
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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.

GLM 4.7 Flash (free)
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0
$1.69
Output /M
$0
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
131,072
131,072
Time to First Token
25.2 s
12.5 s
Throughput
28.4 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsstructured outputsfunction calling
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
January 19, 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.

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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-4.7-flash-freeqwen3.8-max
1280134014001460
Overall
13681482
Coding
14231423
Math
13661366
Hard prompts
13871387
Instruction following
13511351
Multi-turn
13631363
Creative writing
13121312
Longer query
13731373
Chinese
14341434
English
13951395

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 4.7 Flash (free)
$0.00 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max: 12.5s 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?

GLM 4.7 Flash (free) accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on GLM 4.7 Flash (free) and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s and GLM 4.7 Flash (free) at 28.4 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 4.7 Flash (free) accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, structured outputs and function calling; 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 GLM 4.7 Flash (free) 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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