Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at $0.46 per million tokens against $1.73 for GLM-4.5V, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

GLM-4.5V: $1.73 at 302.AI. Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct: $0.46 at Cortecs.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 10 providers sell both: Eden AI, Hugging Face Inference Providers, LLM Gateway, Nous Portal, Novita, OpenRouter, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.

Which holds more context?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at 262k tokens against 64k.

GLM-4.5V vs Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct.

model vs model · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct takes 3 of 5 rounds against GLM-4.5V. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.46 per million tokens against $1.73.

Z.ai

GLM-4.5V

$1.73/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at 302.AI · $0.226 per 1,000 pages

64k context · tool calling · reads images · open weights

Alibaba Cloudwins 3 rounds

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct

$0.46/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at Cortecs · $0.0568 per 1,000 pages

262k context · tool calling · open weights

Cortecs ↗

List price in (lower wins)

$0.60/M

$0.45/M

List price out (lower wins)

$1.80/M

$2.25/M

Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)

$1.73/M at 302.AI

$0.46/M at Cortecs

Standard price (lower wins)

$3.60/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$0.226

$0.0568

Context

64k tokens

262k tokens

Open weights

yes

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

not stated

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

11 Aug 2025

1 Apr 2025

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

not stated

Providers selling both · 10

Eden AI$3.60 / $0.47
Hugging Face Inference Providers$3.60 / $0.47
LLM Gateway$3.60 / $0.48
Nous Portal$3.60 / $0.48
Novita$3.60 / $0.48
OpenRouter$3.60 / $0.49
NanoGPT$3.60 / $0.70
TrustedRouter$3.80 / $0.51

GLM-4.5V then Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, per million tokens · showing the 8 cheapest of 10

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What moved in the last seven days

GLM-4.5VNous Portal$0.48 / $1.44 $0.60 / $1.8025% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B InstructNous Portal$0.06 / $0.22 $0.07 / $0.2725% dearer · 16 Sept 2026

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?: Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at $0.46 per million tokens against $1.73 for GLM-4.5V, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: GLM-4.5V: $1.73 at 302.AI. Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct: $0.46 at Cortecs.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 10 providers sell both: Eden AI, Hugging Face Inference Providers, LLM Gateway, Nous Portal, Novita, OpenRouter, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.
Which holds more context?: Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct, at 262k tokens against 64k.

Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own catalog. The standard price blends three parts input to one part output; a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.