gpt-oss-safeguard-20b vs GLM 4.7 Flash

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.086 in and $0.345 out and GLM 4.7 Flash at $0.069 in and $0.460 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.086 in · $0.345 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.069 in · $0.460 out / 1M

203K context · released 7 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GLM 4.7 Flash at $0.069 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.345 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.7 Flash at 203K tokens — about 290 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

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.03¢

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.04¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.07¢

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.07¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 155K ctx

GLM 4.7 Flash

1.3¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.34¢

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.29¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.7 Flash

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

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

GLM 4.7 Flash

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

Pricing

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

GLM 4.7 Flash

Input / 1M tokens

$0.086

$0.069

Output / 1M tokens

$0.345

$0.460

Cached input / 1M

$0.043

$0.011

Specs

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

GLM 4.7 Flash

Provider

OpenAI

Z.ai

Released

October 2025

7 months ago

Context window

131K

203K

Max output

66K

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.03¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

0.04¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.07¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 7,012 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.7 Flash has the largest context window here — 203K tokens.

On price, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.07¢.

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 →

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b pricing →GLM 4.7 Flash pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b or GLM 4.7 Flash?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at 0.07¢; GLM 4.7 Flash at 0.07¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.7 Flash — 203K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run gpt-oss-safeguard-20b and GLM 4.7 Flash 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 0.14¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.