GLM Image
GLM Image is a released vision model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
- Family
- GLM Image
- Released
- 2026-01-14
- Parameters
- 16B
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
GLM-Image by Zhipu AI (Z.ai). A 16B hybrid model combining a 9B autoregressive language model with a 7B diffusion decoder for text-to-image generation. Pioneered open-source Chinese character and structured text rendering in AI images. The first open-source image model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend hardware. Achieves 91.16% word accuracy on CVTG-2K. Open source, $0.015 per image via Z.ai API.
GLM Image is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GLM Image yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.