Introducing GLM-4-PlusZ.AIReleased August 16, 2024

GLM-4-Plus

The breakthrough foundation model by Zhipu AI / Z.AI featuring 128k context, strong bilingual comprehension, and vision capabilities.

text-to-textProprietary API$1.40 / 1M tok (Flagship Foundation)Context: 128K (128,000 tokens)Arena ELO: 1250

Technical Specifications

Architecture Type
Dense Multimodal Transformer
Total Parameters
Frontier Scale (~130B estimated)
Context Window
128K (128,000 tokens)
Max Output Tokens
4.096K (4,096 tokens)
Knowledge Cutoff
June 2024
Supported Modalities
text, code, vision
License & Access
Z.AI Terms of Service

Benchmark Evaluations

Mmlu
85.3
Gsm8k
89.2
Humaneval
84.8
Chatbot Arena ELO
1250

Deep Architectural Overview

GLM-4-Plus was Zhipu AI’s upgraded flagship model. Trained on high-quality multilingual web corpora, it demonstrated exceptional Chinese and English language understanding, mathematical reasoning, and multimodal document processing.

Strengths & Considerations

Core Strengths
  • Leading bilingual Chinese and English comprehension
  • 128k context window support
  • Reliable tool use and web browsing
Known Limitations
  • Superseded in agentic coding and reasoning by GLM-4.7 and GLM-5 series

Token & API Pricing

Input Tokens (1M)$1.40
Output Tokens (1M)$1.40
Pricing is verified directly against Z.AI's developer documentation and API rate sheets.

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