LLM Reference

GLM-4 9B

Released
2024-06-05
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 60d 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 AIZhipu 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 AIBitdeer AIAWS BedrockGCP 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.

GLM-4 9B is an open-source model in the GLM-4 family. The structured metadata tracks a 131k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, Bitdeer AI, AWS Bedrock, and 1 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.1 input and $0.1 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GLM-4 9B yet.

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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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

Available via routers & gateways(14)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSGCP Vertex AI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.

PassthroughGCP Vertex AIFireworks AI

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.

Passthrough + feeGCP Vertex AI

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.

PassthroughAWS Bedrock

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of GLM-4 9B?

GLM-4 9B has a context window of 131k tokens.

How much does GLM-4 9B cost?

GLM-4 9B pricing ranges from $0.10/1M to $0.2/1M input tokens depending on the provider.

When was GLM-4 9B released?

GLM-4 9B was released on 2024-06-05.

Which providers offer GLM-4 9B?

GLM-4 9B is available from 4 providers: Fireworks AI, Bitdeer AI, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI.