Nova Premier vs GLM-4-Plus
Amazon vs Zhipu AI · Prices checked 12 August 2026
Nova Premier is 21 per cent cheaper on blended cost, $5.50 per million tokens against $7.00. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.375 on Nova Premier against $0.770 on GLM-4-Plus.
The ranking flips with your token mix: Nova Premier is cheaper for input-heavy work like RAG, while GLM-4-Plus wins on output-heavy work like long-form generation or agent loops. Nova Premier leads on 5 of the 5 benchmarks both models report. The widest gap is on LMArena Elo, where Nova Premier leads by 36 points. Nova Premier takes a 300,000-token context window against 128,000, giving 2.3× more room for long documents or whole-codebase work.
Pricing and capacity
| Metric | Nova Premier | GLM-4-Plus | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.50 | $7.00 | 2.8× |
| Output / 1M tokens | $12.50 | $7.00 | 44% |
| Blended · 70/30calculated | $5.50 | $7.00 | 21% |
| Blended · 50/50calculated | $7.50 | $7.00 | 7% |
| Blended · 80/20calculated | $4.50 | $7.00 | 36% |
| Blended · 20/80calculated | $10.50 | $7.00 | 33% |
| Job cost · 100K + 10Kcalculated | $0.375 | $0.770 | 2.1× |
| Job cost · 1M + 100Kcalculated | $3.75 | $7.70 | 2.1× |
| Context window | 300,000 | 128,000 | 2.3× |
Input and output rates are as published by each provider. Blended and job-cost rows are calculated comparison metrics, not published prices — how they are derived.
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nova Premier | GLM-4-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 88% | 84% | Nova Premier |
| GPQA Diamond | 60% | 51% | Nova Premier |
| MATH | 84% | 70% | Nova Premier |
| HumanEval | 92% | 80% | Nova Premier |
| LMArena Elo | 1280 Elo | 1244 Elo | Nova Premier |
Only suites both models report are listed, so a missing score is never shown as a loss. Figures are provider-published or from public leaderboards and are not independently re-run.
What each model is for
Nova Premier
Amazon · Top-tier
AWS's frontier-tier Nova. Premier multimodal model targeting complex agentic workloads inside Bedrock.
- Frontier-tier Nova
- Strong reasoning + vision
- Tight Bedrock + IAM integration
- Long context
GLM-4-Plus
Zhipu AI · Frontier
Zhipu's flagship GLM-4. Strong on Chinese-language benchmarks, with frontier-class reasoning at competitive Chinese pricing.
- Strong on Chinese benchmarks
- Tool use
- 128K context
- Tightly integrated with Zhipu cloud
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier or GLM-4-Plus?
Nova Premier is 21 per cent cheaper on blended cost, $5.50 per million tokens against $7.00. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.375 on Nova Premier against $0.770 on GLM-4-Plus. Blended cost weights input at 70% and output at 30%; price your own token split for an exact answer, since the cheaper model on a blended basis is not always cheaper for your workload.
Which performs better, Nova Premier or GLM-4-Plus?
Nova Premier leads on 5 of the 5 benchmarks both models report. The widest gap is on LMArena Elo, where Nova Premier leads by 36 points. These are the figures each provider or public leaderboard publishes, not results we re-run, and a benchmark average can hide the specific behaviour your workload depends on.
Which has the larger context window, Nova Premier or GLM-4-Plus?
Nova Premier takes a 300,000-token context window against 128,000, giving 2.3× more room for long documents or whole-codebase work. The context window caps everything in a single request: prompt, retrieved documents, conversation history and the model’s own output all share it.
Can I compare Nova Premier and GLM-4-Plus on my own numbers?
Yes. Open both in the side-by-side comparison tool to see every field at once, or use the token calculator to price your actual prompt and monthly request volume against each model. Both are free and need no sign-up.
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Prices and scores are recomputed on every deploy from the catalogue. Prices checked 12 August 2026.