GLM-5 vs Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
753.9 B
Context
202,752
30d
1.0 M
mit · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
2,446.2 B
Context
262,144
30d
25 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 753.9 B 2,446.2 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM Qwen3_5MoeForCausalLM
Context length 202,752 262,144
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 2 —
Downloads 30d 1,020,783 24,938
Downloads all time 2.4 M 101 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-11 2026-08-08
API input price / 1M tokens $1.00 $2.00
API output price / 1M tokens $3.20 $6.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $4.20 $8.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.20 $0.25
AA Intelligence Index 27.9 39.9
AA Coding Index — 71.9
AA Agentic Index — 50.1
Max output tokens 131,072 909,000
API providers 8 5
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

GLM-5 $4.20
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B $8.00

GLM-5 is 1.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

1.0 M25 K
GLM-5 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-5 · fp16 @ 198K ctx 4,457.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · fp16 @ 256K ctx 17,123.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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