As of August 20, 2026, Hy3 is 87% cheaper per million tokens than GLM-5-Turbo. GLM-5-Turbo is $1.20 / $4.00 per million input/output tokens versus Hy3 at $0.13 / $0.53. Sources: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937
Sources: Z AI pricing (https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing); Tencent pricing (https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937)
GLM-5-Turbo
Z AI
Input
$1.20
Output
$4.00
Hy3
Tencent
Input
$0.13
Output
$0.53
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
GLM-5-TurboHy3Verdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Hy3 has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless GLM-5-Turbo's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 20, 2026, Hy3 is 87% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Hy3 costs $0.13 per million input tokens and $0.53 per million output tokens ($0.66 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). GLM-5-Turbo costs $1.20 / $4.00 per million tokens ($5.20 blended). Sources: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
GLM-5-Turbo Z AI API pricing is $1.20 input and $4.00 output per million tokens via Z AI. Hy3 Tencent API pricing is $0.13 input and $0.53 output per million tokens via Tencent. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Hy3 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 78%. GLM-5-Turbo does not have that eval on this page yet.
GLM-5-Turbo supports a 262K token context window, while Hy3 supports 262K tokens. Both models have the same context window size. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Shared benchmark scores for GLM-5-Turbo and Hy3 are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both GLM-5-Turbo and Hy3 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Hy3 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call GLM-5-Turbo through Z AI and Hy3 through Tencent with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Z AI API pricing and Tencent API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
GLM-5-Turbo supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Hy3 supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither GLM-5-Turbo nor Hy3 has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open GLM-5-Turbo or Hy3 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. GLM-5-Turbo costs $1.20/M input and $4.00/M output. Hy3 costs $0.13/M input and $0.53/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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