Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo vs Perplexity: Sonar
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
Perplexity: Sonar is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo | Perplexity: Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | z-ai | perplexity |
| Context Window | 202,752 | 127,072 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $0.9600 | $1.00 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $3.20 | $1.00 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $307 | $180 |
| Vision | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| MMLU Score | N/A | 68.9 |
| GPQA | N/A | 47.1 |
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Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo
$307
per month
Perplexity: Sonar
$180
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
Perplexity: Sonar is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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