GLM-Image: API pricing, providers and specs
GLM-Image is a image model by Zhipu AI. 5 providers serve it, from $0.01 to $0.015 /img; the lowest price is at FastRouter.
How GLM-Image compares
Against the 117 image models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.01 /img, its lowest price undercuts 93% of comparable models (median $0.031).
- Its 4K-token context window is larger than 0% of them (median 4K), about 10 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text-to-Image board it ranks #13 of the 14 comparable models scored there.
- 5 providers serve it; 80% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the MIT license: commercial use allowed.
GLM-Image prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Task | Output |
|---|---|---|
 FastRouter | — | $0.01/img |
| Z.AIOfficial | — | $0.015/img |
 AIHubMix | — | $0.015/img |
 Fal | image-to-image | $0.05/MP |
| Fal | text-to-image | $0.05/MP |
| WaveSpeedAI | image-to-image | $0.12/run |
| WaveSpeedAI | text-to-image | $0.12/run |
- FastRouter$0.01
- Z.AIOfficial$0.015
- AIHubMix$0.015
Specs
- Type
- Image
- Maker
- Zhipu AI
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Image
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Jan 8, 2026
- License
- MITcommercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 6.9B
- Arena score
- 1012Text-to-Image
- Monthly searches
- 2K
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo | $0.014/img | — | 1 |
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Zhipu AI charges $0.015 /img for GLM-Image. The lowest price across providers is $0.01 /img, at FastRouter.
FastRouter, at $0.01 /img. 5 providers serve GLM-Image; the table above lists every one with its price.
GLM-Image reads up to 4K tokens per request.
Yes. GLM-Image's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the MIT license.
About 6.9B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
5 API providers serve GLM-Image. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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