GLM-4V
9B open vision-language model under Apache 2.0
About
GLM-4V-9B is Zhipu AI's open multimodal model from mid-2024, pairing a 9B language backbone with vision understanding under the Apache 2.0 license. It handles image and text input with a long context window and is a practical pick for Chinese-English bilingual document and image work. Zhipu has since moved on to much larger GLM-4.5V/4.6V releases, so GLM-4V-9B is no longer the frontier of the family, but it remains one of the lighter Apache-2.0 vision models that runs on modest hardware. The newer GLM-4V-Plus API tier is a separate commercial offering, not the open weights.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: GLM-4V-9B June 2024 Apache 2.0 release verified via Zhipu model timeline; No specific benchmark figures surfaced in sources read; benchmarks left empty rather than invented; Superseded within the family by GLM-4.5V/4.6V; described as a lighter legacy option.