Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | z-ai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 56.8 | - |
| Input Price | $1.20/M | $0.26/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $1.56/M |
| Context Window | 202,752 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| 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, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs $0.65 and GLM 5V Turbo costs $2.20, so Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 is about 3.4 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 304 pages for GLM 5V Turbo.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GLM 5V Turbo scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Bug Fixing and others), Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 on 10 (Code Completion, Code Refactoring, Code Documentation and others).
GLM 5V Turbo was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 in February 2026.
Pick Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 if you need lower cost or long documents.
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 Plus 2026-02-15 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 136 | 133 |
| Code Review | 134 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 133 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 126 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 128 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 122 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 128 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 132 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 127 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 120 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 129 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 129 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 134 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 117 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 124 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →