Side-by-side comparison of GLM-5.1 (Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · China) and Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-5.1 is rated conditional; Qwen 3.5 is conditional. They part ways on licence: GLM-5.1 is "MIT", Qwen 3.5 is "Apache 2.0".
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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 Hybrid Gated-DeltaNet + MoE flagship (397B total, 17B active) under Apache 2.0. Native vision, 201 languages, 262K context (1M with YaRN). Licence is clean; Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations persist. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China (Beijing) | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 44/100 | 40/100 |
| Speed | 48 tok/s | 53 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.15/M | $1.35/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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