GLM-4.5 vs GPT-5 Nano

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
358.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
114 K
mit · commercial OK
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.05
Output / 1M
$0.40
AA index
13
proprietary · 400K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-4.5 GPT-5 Nano
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 358.3 B n/a — API-only
Architecture Glm4MoeForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 131,072 400,000
Licence mit Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages 2 n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 113,929 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 1.2 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-20 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.60 $0.05
API output price / 1M tokens $2.20 $0.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.80 $0.45
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.11 $0.005
AA Intelligence Index 12.8 13
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 98,304 128,000
API providers 1 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

GLM-4.5 $2.80
GPT-5 Nano $0.45

GPT-5 Nano is 6.2× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

GLM-4.5 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,648.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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