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Flat illustration of a person renting cloud GPUs to run a large GLM model, on a teal background

the cheapest way to run GLM in the cloud (by version)

Can't hold GLM locally? Rent it. GLM-4.5-Air needs one 80GB card (~$0.47/hr); GLM-5 needs two H200s (~$5.26/hr). The card maths and live dated prices for each version.

Ravi Malhotra · 1h ago · 7 min

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GLM vs DeepSeek V4 for local use: the heavyweight open-model showdown

DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B/13B, 3-bit ~103GB) is leaner than GLM-5 (744B/40B, 2-bit ~241GB); GLM-4.6 matches it; GLM-4.5-Air is lighter than both. How the footprints compare, sourced.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 7 min

Flat illustration of a person comparing GLM and Qwen3 models for local use, on a teal background

GLM vs Qwen3 for local use: which top open model to actually run

Qwen3-30B-A3B fits a 24GB card at ~17.5GB; GLM-4.5-Air needs ~60GB. GLM ranks a touch higher; Qwen3 runs on far less. How to choose, with sourced numbers.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 7 min

Flat illustration of a person running GLM-4.5-Air on a single large graphics card, on a teal background

GLM-4.5-Air: the GLM you can actually run at home (hardware guide)

GLM-4.5-Air is 106B total but only 12B active, ~60GB at 4-bit — small enough for one 80GB card or a 128GB unified box. Exactly what hardware runs it, and the cheapest way if you don't own one.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 7 min

Flat illustration of a person choosing which GLM model version fits their hardware, on a teal background

how to run GLM locally in 2026: which version, which GPU

GLM ties Kimi K3 at the top of the open-weight rankings, but 'run it locally' depends on which GLM — from the 106B Air that fits one card to the 744B GLM-5 that needs a 256GB Mac or the cloud. The honest map, with real numbers.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 8 min