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GLM-Image

Z.ai's open-weights hybrid image model: a 9B autoregressive generator with a 7B diffusion decoder, strong at text rendering.

Z.ai
Open weights
Released 13 Jan 2026

Where it ranks

C
Image generation
Models · Local · 888 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
C
Image editing
Models · Local · 824 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Facts

Vendor: Z.ai
Family: GLM-Image
Released: 13 Jan 2026
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: MIT
Parameters: 16B
API price: $0.05 per image (API price listed by Artificial Analysis for GLM-Image: $50 per 1k images; weights free to download)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)	824	`GLM-Image` Read from the leaderboard page's embedded data on 2026-10-19	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	888	`GLM-Image` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 85, 2190 samples; read from the page's embedded data; page shows no last-updated date	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,012	`glm-image` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 76, 4854 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

Where you can use it

BAmuseApps · Local

Sources