Command A vs GLM-5
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Command A
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
GLM-5
Z.ai (Zhipu) · Feb 2026
Z.ai's 744B open-weights MoE — within ~4 points of Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Verified at $1/$3.20 per million tokens.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. GLM-5 is about 2.8x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Command A also takes 262K of context versus 200K for GLM-5.
Specs & pricing
| Command A | GLM-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $1 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $3.2 |
| Context window | 262K | 200K |
| Max output | 8K | 128K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | yes (MIT) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Dec 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $14.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Command A or GLM-5?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. GLM-5 is about 2.8x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Command A also takes 262K of context versus 200K for GLM-5.
- Which is cheaper, Command A or GLM-5?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while GLM-5 costs $1/$3.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $14.80.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or GLM-5?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.