GLM-4.7 API — pricing and access
Chat général, bon en FR / AR / ZH
- Input
- $0.470 USD / 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.056 USD / 1M tokens
- Context
- 128k
- Available on
- Starter and above
- Provider
- Zhipu AI
GLM-4.7 is the conversation model we put in every plan, including Starter. It's the default choice for dialogue, drafting, or answering questions over a document set: it handles French and Arabic well, which is not a given at its price point, and its 128k window is enough to hand it a whole file without chunking.
Against GLM-4.7 Flash, the gap shows up on long answers: Flash is cheaper and faster, but slips on multi-step reasoning. If your workload is an agent chaining tool calls, look at Hunyuan Hy3 or MiniMax M3 instead, both built for that. GLM-4.7 is not a coding model: it writes correct functions, but on an existing codebase it loses the thread faster than Kimi K2.6.
In practice we recommend it for a customer-support assistant, document search with citations, or any product where the cost per conversation has to stay predictable.
Measured on Velqa
- Time to first token
- 0.56 s
- Throughput
- 59.3 tokens/s
Median of 5 streamed calls against api.velqa.dev, 2026-08-10.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible endpoint — change the base URL and the model id, nothing else.
curl https://api.velqa.dev/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VELQA_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "glm-4.7",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'Related models
FAQ
- How much does GLM-4.7 cost on Velqa?
- GLM-4.7 costs $0.470 per million input tokens and $2.056 per million output tokens, in USD. It is included from the Starter plan up.
- Can I use GLM-4.7 without a subscription?
- Yes. GLM-4.7 can be called with prepaid Boost credit, without a monthly plan. Trying it in the playground does need an account, though: anonymous playground access is limited to the demo model.
- Is GLM-4.7 compatible with the OpenAI API?
- Yes. Point your client at https://api.velqa.dev/v1 and set the model to "glm-4.7" — GLM-4.7 answers on the standard chat completions endpoint, streaming included.
