SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 vs Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | z-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 56.8 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $1.20/M |
| Output Price | $2.00/M | $4.00/M |
| Context Window | 256,000 | 202,752 |
| Max Output | 230,400 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 56.9 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok Build 0.1 costs $1.50 and GLM 5V Turbo costs $2.20, so Grok Build 0.1 is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 256,000 and 202,752 tokens, about 384 and 304 pages.
Only GLM 5V Turbo offers video input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on 3 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), GLM 5V Turbo on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Grok Build 0.1 was released in May 2026 and GLM 5V Turbo in April 2026.
Pick Grok Build 0.1 if you need lower cost; pick GLM 5V Turbo if you need video input or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 136 |
| Code Review | 126 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 133 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 128 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 122 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 123 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 121 | 120 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 129 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 129 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 134 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 117 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →