Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GLM 5.1

Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 and GLM 5.1 on the metrics that decide an agent workload.

MetricClaude Haiku 4.5GLM 5.1
ProviderAnthropicFireworks AI
Input / 1M$1.00$1.40
Output / 1M$5.00$4.40
Cache read / 1M$0.10 (−90%)$0.26 (−81%)
Reuse-adj @55%$1.63$1.68
Context200K203K
Cache capture90%82%
Warm TTFT110ms (−66%)130ms (−62%)
Quality index8086

Teal marks the better value in each row. Reuse-adjusted assumes 55% prefix reuse and a 25% output share.

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when it is cheaper once prefix reuse is priced in, it answers faster on warm cache hits, it captures more of the available reuse.

Pick GLM 5.1 when

Pick GLM 5.1 when it scores higher on the composite quality index, it carries the larger 203K context window, it is open-weights for on-prem and regulated lanes.

Verdict

GLM 5.1 leads on quality while Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on reuse-adjusted cost. Send latency- and budget-sensitive volume to Claude Haiku 4.5 and reserve GLM 5.1 for the hard requests. Zumik's aliases route between them automatically under policy.

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GLM 5.1, answered.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or GLM 5.1 cheaper?

At 55% prefix reuse, Claude Haiku 4.5 blends to about $1.63 per 1M tokens and GLM 5.1 to about $1.68. Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper on that basis.

Which has the larger context window?

GLM 5.1 has the larger window: 203K vs 200K tokens.

Which captures more reuse?

Claude Haiku 4.5 shows higher measured cache capture (90% vs 82%) in the Zumik corpus.

Let an alias pick for you.

Route to whichever model wins under current policy automatically. Zumik resolves the alias to the best fit per request, so you never hard-code a loser.