Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with...
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) vs Z.ai: GLM 4.5V
Z.ai: GLM 4.5V wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language foundation model for multimodal agent applications. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106B parameters and 12B activated parameters, it achieves state-of-the-art results in video understandin…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) | Z.ai: GLM 4.5V | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 66K | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $0.60 | 🏆 Z.ai: GLM 4.5V |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $7.50 | $1.80 | 🏆 Z.ai: GLM 4.5V |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) better than Z.ai: GLM 4.5V?
Z.ai: GLM 4.5V wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Z.ai: GLM 4.5V?
Input: $1.50 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens. Output: $7.50 vs $1.80 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Z.ai: GLM 4.5V support?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) supports up to 1M tokens. Z.ai: GLM 4.5V supports up to 66K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Z.ai: GLM 4.5V support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch): yes. Z.ai: GLM 4.5V: yes.
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