GLM Image specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: GLM Image
Author: Z.ai

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Jan 8, 2026

Provider: Z.ai
Release date: Jan 8, 2026; Hugging Face
Parameters: 6.9B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Image; Hugging Face
License: MIT; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 14 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 6.9 GB at 8-bit, about 3.5 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
66	Text-to-ImageImage · as “GLM-Image”	Image	1,012	71

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