Models

GLM 5 Vision Turbo vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare GLM 5 Vision Turbo from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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GLM 5 Vision Turbo
Z.AI · text, image, video → text

GLM-5V-Turbo is Zhipu's first multimodal coding foundation model, built for visual programming tasks. It can natively handle multimodal inputs such as images, videos, and text, and is adept at long-horizon planning, complex programming, and action execution; deeply adapted to Agent workflows, it can collaborate closely with agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw to complete the full closed loop of "understand the environment → plan actions → execute tasks."

Input$0.7042 /M
Output$3.0985 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.338 /M
Output$1.014 /M
Cache read$0.0338 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GLM 5 Vision Turbo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.7042
$0.338
Output /M
$3.0985
$1.014
Cache read /M
$0.169
$0.0338
Context length
200,000
983,616
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
4.4 s
2.4 s
Throughput
35.3 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max-preview
1380144015001560
Overall
14331480
Coding
14901520
Math
14431497
Hard prompts
14531502
Instruction following
14231477
Multi-turn
14331493
Creative writing
14011466
Longer query
14431492
Chinese
14781536
English
14521488
Vision
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max-preview
12001240128013201360
Overall
12291300
OCR
12431315
Diagram
12611326
Homework
12521334
WebDev Arena
glm-5v-turboqwen3.8-max-preview
1340146015801700
Overall
14001670
React
13851679
HTML
13631628
Gaming
14061735
Simulations
13651667
Data analytics
13941615

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
GLM 5 Vision Turbo
$88.73 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5 Vision Turbo, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; GLM 5 Vision Turbo: $3.0985/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; GLM 5 Vision Turbo: 1490 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

GLM 5 Vision Turbo accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5 Vision Turbo and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and GLM 5 Vision Turbo at 35.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GLM 5 Vision Turbo accepts text, image and video input; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GLM 5 Vision Turbo and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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