Side-by-side comparison of GLM-5.1 (Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · China) and Llama 4 Scout (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-5.1 is rated conditional; Llama 4 Scout is conditional. They part ways on licence: GLM-5.1 is "MIT", Llama 4 Scout is "Llama community".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per current documentation, GLM-5.1 is released under a verbatim MIT License with no use restrictions, enabling self-hosted commercial deployment. However, training-data opacity, Beijing-based publisher, and Zhipu AI's presence on the US BIS Entity List create EU AI Act transparency and supply-chain screening risks for regulated deployers. | Conditional Smaller Llama 4 variant: 17B active over 16 experts, multimodal. More self-hostable than Maverick. Same Llama community licence caveats. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China (Beijing) | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 44/100 | 14/100 |
| Speed | 48 tok/s | 128 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.15/M | $0.29/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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