GLM OCR: API pricing, providers and specs
GLM OCR is a text model by Zhipu AI. 4 providers serve it, from $0.028 to $0.03 /1M; the lowest price is at AIHubMix.
How GLM OCR compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.028 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 99% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 32K-token context window is larger than 5% of them (median 262K), about 50 pages of text.
- 4 providers serve it; 60% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the MIT license: commercial use allowed.
GLM OCR 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 | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AIHubMix | $0.028/1M | $0.028/1M | — | 32K |
| Z.AIOfficial | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | — | — |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.03/1M | $0.03/1M | — | — |
- AIHubMix$0.028
- Z.AIOfficial$0.03
- CrazyRouter$0.03
- Jiekou.AI$0.03
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Zhipu AI
- Inputs
- Image
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 32K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- Vision
- Released
- Jan 30, 2026
- License
- MITcommercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 1.3B
- Monthly searches
- 10K
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Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM OCRthis model | $0.028/1M | 32K | — | 4 |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.03/1M | 1.05M | 1664 | 39 |
 Qwen3 8B | $0.06/1M | — | — | 3 |
 Gemma 4 E2B IT | $0.08/1M | — | — | 1 |
| Qwen3-4B | $0.03/1M | — | — | 2 |
| Qwen2-7B-Instruct | $0.08/1M | — | — | 2 |
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| Qwen3.5 4B | $0.07/1M | 262K | — | 4 |
 Ling 3.0 Flash (free) | $0.063/1M | 262K | — | 9 |
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AIHubMix, at $0.028 /1M. 4 providers serve GLM OCR; the table above lists every one with its price.
GLM OCR reads up to 32K tokens per request.
Yes. GLM OCR's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the MIT license.
About 1.3B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
4 API providers serve GLM OCR. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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