GLM-4.7 Flash API — pricing and access
Version légère et économique de GLM-4.7
- Input
- $0.071 USD / 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.470 USD / 1M tokens
- Context
- 200k
- Available on
- Starter and above
- Provider
- Zhipu AI
Try GLM-4.7 Flash in the playground
GLM-4.7 Flash is the economy version of GLM-4.7: same family, same solid handling of French and Arabic, but a much lower price per token. Available from Starter, it's built for high-traffic assistants — support, FAQs, triaging inbound messages — where conversation volume matters more than the polish of any single answer. Its 200k window is actually wider than GLM-4.7's own, which lets it take in large documents without chunking.
Against GLM-4.7, the full version of the family, Flash loses ground on multi-step reasoning and long, nuanced answers. Against DeepSeek V4 Flash, its direct competitor in the same price bracket, GLM-4.7 Flash keeps the edge on context size, useful for document search.
It is not the right choice when an answer needs to be argued or technical: for that, GLM-4.7 or GLM-5.2 hold up better, at the cost of a higher price per conversation.
Measured on Velqa
- Time to first token
- 0.65 s
- Throughput
- 85.6 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-flash",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'Related models
FAQ
- How much does GLM-4.7 Flash cost on Velqa?
- GLM-4.7 Flash costs $0.071 per million input tokens and $0.470 per million output tokens, in USD. It is included from the Starter plan up.
- Can I use GLM-4.7 Flash without a subscription?
- Yes. GLM-4.7 Flash 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 Flash compatible with the OpenAI API?
- Yes. Point your client at https://api.velqa.dev/v1 and set the model to "glm-4.7-flash" — GLM-4.7 Flash answers on the standard chat completions endpoint, streaming included.
