GLM-4 9B

Name: GLM-4 9B
Author: Zhipu AI

Released

2024-06-05

Last refreshed

2026-06-29

Status

Researched 105d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedLong context

GLM-4 9B is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating long context
Workloads that can use a 131k context window
Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

Vision or document-understanding workloads
Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Specifications

Family: GLM-4
Released: 2024-06-05
Context: 131k
Parameters: 9B
Architecture: Decoder Only
Specialization: general
Openness: Open source
License: MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Fine-tuned

Created by

Zhipu AI

Chinese AI research lab developing GLM language models.

Beijing, China

Founded 2019

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.100

Input / 1M

$0.100

Cheapest of 4 routes · AWS Bedrock

Providers(4)

Fireworks AI Bitdeer AI AWS Bedrock GCP Vertex AI

View 4 provider routes

About

GLM-4 9B is Tsinghua Knowledge Engineering Group (THUDM)'s GLM-4 model. It offers a 128K-token context window.

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 4

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
AWS Bedrock	$0.100	$0.100	Serverless
GCP Vertex AI	$0.100	$0.100	Serverless
Fireworks AI	$0.200	$0.200	Serverless
Bitdeer AI	$0.140	$0.420	Serverless

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