GLM-5 vs Grok 4.1 Fast
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
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.
xAI · Nov 2025
A 2M-token context window for $0.20 per million input tokens — the cheapest long-context frontier offering anywhere.
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. On price the gap is dramatic: Grok 4.1 Fast works out roughly 5.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Grok 4.1 Fast also takes 2M of context versus 200K for GLM-5. And GLM-5 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| GLM-5 | Grok 4.1 Fast | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1 | $0.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $3.2 | $0.5 |
| Context window | 200K | 2M |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Open weights | yes (MIT) | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Dec 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Released | Feb 2026 | Nov 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $14.80 | $2.75 |
* 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, GLM-5 or Grok 4.1 Fast?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Grok 4.1 Fast works out roughly 5.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Grok 4.1 Fast also takes 2M of context versus 200K for GLM-5. And GLM-5 is open-weights (MIT), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Grok 4.1 Fast?
- GLM-5 costs $1/$3.2 per million input/output tokens, while Grok 4.1 Fast costs $0.2/$0.5. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $14.80 versus $2.75.
- Which model is better for coding, GLM-5 or Grok 4.1 Fast?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.