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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs GLM 5
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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2/6 models| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 24 17.3 | 64 42.4 |
| Family | Gemini | GLM |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Jul 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 203K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.30/M tokens | $0.72/M tokens |
| Output Price | $2.50/M tokens | $2.30/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | DeepMind model page lists $0.30 input and $2.50 output per 1M tokens with no caching in the performance table. The ai.google.dev API docs were attempted through ScrapingBee and returned HTTP 400, so exact billing details beyond the official DeepMind price table were not used. | — |
| Capabilities | textvisionaudio-inputvideo-inputpdf-inputreasoningcodingtool-usesearch-groundingcomputer-usestructured-output | textcode |
| Max Output | 64K tokens | 131K tokens |
| API Identifier | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | z-ai/glm-5 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 36artificial-analysis | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 54.2google-deepmind | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54google-deepmind | — |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | 1140google-deepmind | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | 22.6607artificial-analysis | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 83.8384artificial-analysis | 86https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5 |
| SciCode | 41.3194artificial-analysis | — |
| View Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | View GLM 5 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteCheapest | $0.30 | $1.25 | $1.55 | — |
| GLM 5 | $0.72 | $1.15 | $1.87 | +21% |
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google DeepMind general availability low-latency model for high-volume agentic systems, coding, document parsing, translation, and structured automation. Official DeepMind evidence lists 1M input tokens, 64k output tokens, text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, text output, tool use, Gemini API availability, and $0.30 input / $2.50 output pricing per million tokens.
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GLM 5
GLM-5 is Z.ai's open-weight language model for agentic engineering, with 744B total and 40B active parameters. Its released checkpoint configuration supports 202,752 token positions; hosted service limits and prices depend on the provider.
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