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GLM 5 Vision Turbo vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GLM 5 Vision Turbo 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 5 Vision Turbo
Z.AI · text, image, video, document → text

GLM-5V-Turbo is Zhipu's first multimodal coding foundation model, built for visual programming tasks. It can natively handle multimodal inputs such as images, videos, and text, and is adept at long-horizon planning, complex programming, and action execution; deeply adapted to Agent workflows, it can collaborate closely with agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw to complete the full closed loop of "understand the environment → plan actions → execute tasks."

Input$0.7042 /M
Output$3.0985 /M
Cache read$0.169 /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 5 Vision Turbo
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.7042
$1.69
Output /M
$3.0985
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.169
$0.169
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
131,072
131,072
Time to First Token
5.2 s
12.5 s
Throughput
20.0 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideodocument
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
April 1, 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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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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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max
140014401480
Overall
14341482
Vision
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max
1200124012801320
Overall
12311301
WebDev Arena
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max
13801460154016201700
Overall
14021672

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 5 Vision Turbo
$88.73 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5 Vision Turbo, Qwen3.8 Max?

GLM 5 Vision Turbo: $3.0985/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GLM 5 Vision Turbo: 5.2s 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 5 Vision Turbo accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on GLM 5 Vision Turbo and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s and GLM 5 Vision Turbo at 20.0 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 5 Vision Turbo accepts text, image and video input; 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 5 Vision Turbo 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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