GLM-4.5V vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Prices checked
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct takes 4 of 5 rounds against GLM-4.5V. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.25 per million tokens against $0.43.
Z.aiGLM-4.5V
64k context · tool calling · reads images · open weights
$0.43/M tokensCheapest price, at 302.AI · $0.23 per 1,000 pages
Alibaba CloudWins 4 roundsQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
131k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.25/M tokensCheapest price, at Alibaba Cloud (China) · $0.12 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.60/M
$0.50/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$1.80/M
$2/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$0.43/M at 302.AI
$0.25/M at Alibaba Cloud (China)
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.90/M
$0.88/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.23
$0.12
Context
64k tokens
131k tokens
Open weights
yes
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
not published
not published
Reads images
yes
no
Reasoning
yes
no
Released
11 Aug 2025
1 Sept 2025
Providers selling it
19
24
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
not published
Providers selling both · 12
Eden AI$0.90 / $0.34
Kilo Gateway$0.90 / $0.34
NanoGPT$0.90 / $0.34
Nous Portal$0.90 / $0.34
OpenRouter$0.90 / $0.34
Merge Gateway$0.90 / $0.35
TrustedRouter$0.95 / $0.36
Vercel AI Gateway$0.90 / $0.41
GLM-4.5V, then Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, per million tokens; the 8 cheapest of 12.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
- NanoGPT · 2% cheaper · 9¢ / $1.10 $0.10 / $1.10
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, at $0.25 per million tokens against $0.43 for GLM-4.5V, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- GLM-4.5V: $0.43 at 302.AI. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: $0.25 at Alibaba Cloud (China).
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 12 providers sell both: Eden AI, Kilo Gateway, NanoGPT, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Merge Gateway, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.
- Which holds more context?
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, at 131k tokens against 64k.
Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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