Z.ai: GLM 5

Public pricingIntelligence 83/100Medium memoryDeep thinkingTool use

Z.ai: GLM 5 is a text model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines strong coding performance and reliable tool use and agent behavior with a 80K tokens context window and a balanced-cost profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$0.72/1M

Output

$2.30/1M

Cached

$0.20/1M

Batch

$0.50/1M

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Technical specifications

GLM 5 at a glance.

Memory

80,000

tokens

Max reply

131,072

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

—

Released

Feb 2026

Training cutoff

Oct 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • gpqa_diamond

    86

  • swe_bench_verified

    77.8

  • aime_2025

    92.7

  • aa_intelligence_index

    50

  • frontiermath_tier_4

    2.1

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GLM 5

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GLM 5 costs roughly $146 per month. Input is $0.72 /1M tokens and output is $2.30 /1M tokens.
GLM 5 has a 80,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 15,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GLM 5 supports deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GLM 5 was released in February 2026, with training data cut off around October 2025.
Models in a similar class include GLM 4.5, GLM 4.5V, GLM 4.6. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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