What are the hardware requirements for GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking?

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking requires approximately 20.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking and how large is it?

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking is developed by zai-org, a model with 9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking?

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking by zai-org — VRAM 20.6GB

Name: GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking
Author: zai-org

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking is an open-source language model by zai-org. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 20.6GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Arxiv:2507.01006 Base model:finetune:zai-org/gl... Base model:zai-org/glm-4-9b-04... Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Glm4v Image-text-to-text Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking

GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
Base Model(s)	GLM 4 9B 0414 zai-org/GLM-4-9B-0414
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	20.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	zai-org
Model Type	glm4v
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.3 GB: 3-of-4 4.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	Glm4vForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>

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Quantized Models of the GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking 8bit	3	385	11 GB

Best Alternatives to GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking	64K / 20.6 GB	74	2
AutoGLM Phone 9B	0K / 20.6 GB	22901	442
AutoGLM Phone 9B Multilingual	0K / 20.6 GB	686	240
Glyph	0K / 20.6 GB	708	74
UI2Code N	0K / 20.6 GB	338	23
WebVIA Agent	0K / 20.6 GB	153	20
GLM 4.1V 9B Base	0K / 20.6 GB	1636	68
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking 8bit	0K / 11.7 GB	385	3