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GLM 5 Turbo vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 6 12.0 | |
| Family | GLM | Nemotron |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 203K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $1.20/M tokens | $0.10/M tokens |
| Output Price | $4.00/M tokens | $0.95/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.2400/M tokens | NVIDIA build lists serverless NIM pricing at $0.10 input and $0.95 output per million tokens. Self-hosted weights are also available; infrastructure costs vary. |
| Capabilities | textcode | textreasoningcodingtool-usefunction-callinglong-contextagenticlocal-deploymentopen-weights |
| Training Cutoff | — | May 2026 post-training; September 2025 pre-training |
| Max Output | 131K tokens | 33K tokens |
| API Identifier | z-ai/glm-5-turbo | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | — | 24artificial-analysis |
| View GLM 5 Turbo | View Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCheapest | $0.10 | $0.48 | $0.58 | — |
| GLM 5 Turbo | $1.20 | $2.00 | $3.20 | +457% |
Z.ai
GLM 5 Turbo
GLM 5 Turbo is a large language model from Z.ai. Supports up to 202,752 token context window. Available from $1.20/M input tokens.
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA open-weight 30B-A3B reasoning model for fast, long-running agents. Its hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention architecture supports function calling, coding, tool use, long context, and efficient local or serverless deployment.
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