Mistral Large 4 vs Z.ai GLM 4.5
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Both cost about the same at a typical 3:1 input/output mix.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 131K tokens.
- Mistral Large 4 is the newer model (released 2026-10-06).
| Mistral Large 4 | GLM 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Z.ai |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2025-07-25 |
| Input / 1M | $0.70 | $0.60 |
| Output / 1M | $2.10 | $2.20 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.07 | $0.11 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.05 | $1.00 |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 262K | 98K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.10 | $2.20 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.81% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Mistral Large 4
$73.50 per month$2.45 per day
GLM 4.5
$69.00 per month$2.30 per day
GLM 4.5 saves $4.50 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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