Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | z-ai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 56.8 | 55.6 |
| Input Price | $1.20/M | $0.26/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $2.60/M |
| Context Window | 202,752 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 81,920 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 56.9 | 55.7 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.5-27B costs $0.91 and GLM 5V Turbo costs $2.20, so Qwen3.5-27B is about 2.4 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 202,752 and 262,144 tokens, about 304 and 393 pages.
On our blended benchmark score GLM 5V Turbo leads 56.8 to 55.6.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GLM 5V Turbo scores higher on 2 (Frontend Component Design, Data Analysis), Qwen3.5-27B on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
GLM 5V Turbo was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5-27B in February 2026.
Pick GLM 5V Turbo if you need benchmark performance; pick Qwen3.5-27B if you need lower cost 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 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 136 | 137 |
| Code Review | 134 | 137 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 133 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 141 |
| Unit Test Generation | 126 | 127 |
| Code Documentation | 128 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 122 | 123 |
| Frontend Component Design | 128 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 132 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 127 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 130 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 120 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 129 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 129 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 134 | 138 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 117 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 124 | 125 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →