The closest alternative to GLM 4.5V is Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — comparable intelligence (15.0 vs 15.1); for a cheaper option, MiniMax M3 runs $0.300/M vs $0.600/M; for more speed, Mercury 2 hits 590 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is the closest alternative to GLM 4.5V, with an Intelligence Index of 15.0 (GLM 4.5V scores 15.1) at $0.048 per million input tokens.
Yes — MiniMax M3 costs $0.300 per million input tokens versus $0.600 for GLM 4.5V, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to GLM 4.5V — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.