GLM-4

glm-4

GLM-4V-9B is the open-source multimodal model in Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 series. It supports high-resolution (1120×1120) bilingual Chinese–English dialogue across multiple turns, and performs strongly in perception, reasoning, OCR, and chart understanding. Across many multimodal benchmarks, it outperforms models such as GPT-4-turbo-2024-04-09, Gemini 1.0 Pro, Qwen-VL-Max, and Claude 3 Opus.

Context: 128K tokens
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Input$0.21 / 1M

Output$0.21 / 1M

Cache Write (5m)$0.21 / 1M

Cache Write (1h)$0.21 / 1M

Cache Read$0.21 / 1M

Web Search$0 / 1M

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from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="glm-4",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="glm-4",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

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