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GLM 5V Turbo vs SAM 3

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GLM 5V Turbo vs SAM 3 Comparison Table

Evals updated August 27, 2026Pricing updated September 2, 2026

PropertyGLM 5V TurboSAM 3
OrganizationZ.aiMeta
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateApr 2026Nov 2025
Context Window200K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryCustom
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$1.20
Output $/1M$4.00
Vision Tasks
Object DetectionDemoDemo
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Instance Segmentation
Multi-Label Classification
OCRDemo
Open Vocabulary Object Detection
Promptable Concept SegmentationDemo
Video Object Tracking
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Zero Shot Segmentation
Model Features
Foundation Vision
Multimodal Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Zero-shot Detection
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
65.3%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.0031
Avg speed / sample6.35s
By task
Object Detection
56.5%
$0.0052
Counting
48.6%
$0.0017
Identification
84.4%
$0.0015
OCR
89.3%
$0.0030
Data Extraction
81.4%
$0.0018
Reasoning (low)
31.8%
$0.0017
Reasoning (high)
49.7%
$0.0069

GLM 5V Turbo vs SAM 3: Overview

GLM 5V Turbo

GLM-5V-Turbo is a native multimodal model from Z.ai that extends the GLM family with joint image, video, and text input aimed at vision-centered coding and agent workflows. The model reads screenshots, design drafts, document layouts, and interface captures and generates runnable code from them, covering tasks such as turning a visual design into a working front end, diagnosing rendering and layout defects from screen captures, and operating graphical user interfaces during long-horizon agent runs. It accepts roughly 200,000 input tokens and can emit up to 131,072 output tokens in a single response, which supports sessions that hold specifications, source files, logs, and visual references at the same time.

Training includes a joint reinforcement learning stage spanning more than 30 tasks simultaneously, an approach Z.ai describes as a way to counter the trade-off in which improving visual recognition degrades programming ability and the reverse. Reported evaluations cover pure-text coding on the backend, frontend, and repository exploration tracks of CC-Bench-V2, together with agent execution suites such as PinchBench, ClawEval, and ZClawBench, indicating that text coding behavior is retained after visual input is added.

SAM 3

Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.

Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.

Frequently Asked Questions

SAM 3 has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.

GLM 5V Turbo is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.