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GLM 5.1 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GLM 5.1 · Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GLM 5.1
#88 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
#35 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.9x better value than GLM 5.1
GLM 5.1
27.1 pts/$
$2.00/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
50.9 pts/$
$1.30/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 5.1$0.97$3.04205K tokens (~102 books)$14.83
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507$0.20$2.4082K tokens (~41 books)$7.50