Which is cheaper, GLM 5.3 Prime or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct, at $2.80 per million tokens against $17.20 for GLM 5.3 Prime, three parts input to one part output, read on 24 Sept 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

GLM 5.3 Prime: nobody goes below OpenRouter's own price with a reason we can point at, so $17.20 is the number to beat. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: $2.80 at NanoGPT.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 3 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, OpenRouter, Alibaba Cloud. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.

Which holds more context?

GLM 5.3 Prime, at 1M tokens against 131k.

GLM 5.3 Prime vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.

model vs model · prices as of 24 Sept 2026

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct takes 3 of 5 rounds against GLM 5.3 Prime. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $2.80 per million tokens against $17.20.

Z.ai

GLM 5.3 Prime

$17.20/M tokens

OpenRouter list price, nothing below it is accounted for · $2.21 per 1,000 pages

1M context · tool calling

Alibaba Cloudwins 3 rounds

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

$2.80/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at NanoGPT · $0.462 per 1,000 pages

131k context · tool calling · reads images · open weights

NanoGPT ↗

List price in (lower wins)

$2.80/M

List price out (lower wins)

$8.80/M

$8.40/M

Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)

none below list

$2.80/M at NanoGPT

Standard price (lower wins)

$17.20/M

$16.80/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$2.21

$0.462

Context

1M tokens

131k tokens

Open weights

not stated

yes

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

yes

not stated

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

23 Sept 2026

1 Sept 2024

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

OpenRouter

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

no provider to check

not stated

Providers selling both · 3

Kilo Gateway$17.20 / $3.40
OpenRouter$17.20 / $3.40
Alibaba Cloud$17.20 / $16.80

GLM 5.3 Prime then Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct, per million tokens

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, GLM 5.3 Prime or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?: Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct, at $2.80 per million tokens against $17.20 for GLM 5.3 Prime, three parts input to one part output, read on 24 Sept 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: GLM 5.3 Prime: nobody goes below OpenRouter's own price with a reason we can point at, so $17.20 is the number to beat. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: $2.80 at NanoGPT.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 3 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, OpenRouter, Alibaba Cloud. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.
Which holds more context?: GLM 5.3 Prime, at 1M tokens against 131k.

Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 24 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.