GLM-Image
Zhipu AI
Key facts · verified Oct 27, 2026
GLM-Image is a Zhipu AI image generation model released on 14 Jan 2026. Pricing: $0.015 per image (Z.ai API). Source: docs.z.ai.
Z.ai’s GLM-Image, released on 14 January 2026: an open-source image model pairing a 9-billion-parameter auto-regressive module (initialised from GLM-4-9B-0414) with a 7-billion-parameter diffusion decoder. Z.ai built it for text-heavy and knowledge-dense images such as posters, slides and diagrams, and it also edits images and transfers styles. Weights are under the MIT licence; the Z.ai API charges $0.015 per image.
Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 27, 2026
Pricing
$0.015 per image (Z.ai API)
Context
Not published
LMArena Elo
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LMArena rank
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Key Features
Image Generation Open Weights Text Rendering Image Editing
Full Specifications
$0.015 per image (Z.ai API) | |
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| Identity | |
| Developer | Zhipu AI |
| Released | Jan 2026 |
| Licence | MIT (open weights, Hugging Face zai-org/GLM-Image) |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Price per image | $0.015 |
| Capability | |
| Image-to-image | Yes — editing, style transfer, identity-preserving and multi-subject generation |
| Text rendering | Yes — Z.ai’s stated focus |
| Access | |
| API | Yes — Z.ai API |