R1 Distill Llama 70B vs GLM 4.5V

R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 in and $0.920 out and GLM 4.5V at $0.690 in and $2.07 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.53¢

for a client proposal

$0.920 in · $0.920 out / 1M

8K context · released January 2025

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GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

0.51¢

for a client proposal

$0.690 in · $2.07 out / 1M

66K context · released August 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GLM 4.5V at $0.690 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.5V at 66K tokens — about 94 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.23¢

GLM 4.5V

0.24¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.53¢

GLM 4.5V

0.51¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 155K ctx

GLM 4.5V

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 35K ctx

GLM 4.5V

2.6¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.5V

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

R1 Distill Llama 70B

GLM 4.5V

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

R1 Distill Llama 70B

GLM 4.5V

Input / 1M tokens

$0.920

$0.690

Output / 1M tokens

$0.920

$2.07

Cached input / 1M

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$0.127

Specs

R1 Distill Llama 70B

GLM 4.5V

Provider

DeepSeek

Z.ai

Released

January 2025

August 2025

Context window

66K

Max output

16K

Input

Text

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2024-12-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.23¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

Full pricing →

GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

0.24¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.47¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,060 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.5V has the largest context window here — 66K tokens.

On price, GLM 4.5V is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.51¢.

For images or files, GLM 4.5V can read them directly; R1 Distill Llama 70B is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing →GLM 4.5V pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, R1 Distill Llama 70B or GLM 4.5V?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 4.5V at 0.51¢; R1 Distill Llama 70B at 0.53¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.5V — 66K tokens, about 94 pages.

Can I run R1 Distill Llama 70B and GLM 4.5V side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.