o3 Mini vs GLM 5V Turbo

o3 Mini at $1.26 in and $5.06 out and GLM 5V Turbo at $1.38 in and $4.60 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

o3 Mini

OpenAI

1¢

for a client proposal

$1.26 in · $5.06 out / 1M

200K context · released January 2025

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GLM 5V Turbo

Z.ai

1.1¢

for a client proposal

$1.38 in · $4.60 out / 1M

203K context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 2.1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: o3 Mini at $1.26 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GLM 5V Turbo at $4.60 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 5V Turbo 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

o3 Mini

0.51¢

GLM 5V Turbo

0.51¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

o3 Mini

1¢

GLM 5V Turbo

1.1¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

o3 Mini

$0.22

GLM 5V Turbo

$0.23

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

o3 Mini

4.9¢

GLM 5V Turbo

$0.05

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

o3 Mini

needs 250K ctx

GLM 5V Turbo

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

o3 Mini

GLM 5V Turbo

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

Pricing

o3 Mini

GLM 5V Turbo

Input / 1M tokens

$1.26

$1.38

Output / 1M tokens

$5.06

$4.60

Cached input / 1M

$0.632

$0.276

Web search

1.1¢ / search

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Specs

o3 Mini

GLM 5V Turbo

Provider

OpenAI

Z.ai

Released

January 2025

4 months ago

Context window

200K

203K

Max output

100K

131K

Input

Text and Files

Images, Text, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2023-10-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

o3 Mini

OpenAI

0.51¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

GLM 5V Turbo

Z.ai

0.51¢

for this task

55% input · 45% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 1¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 494 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 5V Turbo has the largest context window here — 203K tokens.

On price, o3 Mini is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 1¢.

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 →

o3 Mini pricing →GLM 5V Turbo pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, o3 Mini or GLM 5V Turbo?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): o3 Mini at 1¢; GLM 5V Turbo at 1.1¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 5V Turbo — 203K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run o3 Mini and GLM 5V Turbo 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 2.1¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 2.1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.