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Z.ai · Released Feb 11, 2026

GLM 5

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling…

ReasoningOpen weights
  • Top 40%Terminal-Bench
  • Top 41%GPQA Diamond
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Released
Feb 11 2026
Context window
205K 131K out
Input / 1M tokens
$1.00 from Free
Output / 1M tokens
$3.20 from Free

Where to run it

50 providers compared

Free to try on OpenCode — free endpoints are often limited-time and rate-limited. Included in Alibaba Coding Plan (China), Tencent Coding Plan (China), SCNet Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan +1 more. Cheapest: Vultr at $0.40 / $1.75 per 1M input / output tokens — 56% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
OpenCodefree · may be limited-time Free Free Free205K131K— Free
Alibaba Coding Plan (China)subscription plan Plan Plan Plan203K16K— Plan
Tencent Coding Plan (China)subscription plan Plan Plan Plan203K16K— Plan
SCNet Token Plansubscription plan Plan Plan Plan205K131K— Plan
Alibaba Token Plansubscription plan Plan Plan Plan203K16K— Plan
Alibaba Coding Plansubscription plan Plan Plan Plan203K16K— Plan
Alibaba Token Plan (China)subscription plan Plan Plan Plan203K16K— Plan
Vultr $0.40 $1.75 —203K131K— Cheapest
NanoGPT $0.60 $1.90 $0.10200K128K— +25%
StreamLakeFP8 $0.60 $1.92 $0.12198K128K100%24h +26%
GMICloudFP8 $0.60 $1.92 $0.12203K182K99.9%24h +26%
FastRouter $0.60 $2.08 $0.12205K131K— +32%
Deep Infra $0.60 $2.08 $0.12203K16K— +32%
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $0.57 $2.58 $0.14203K131K— +46%
Alibaba (China) $0.57 $2.58 —203K16K— +46%
BaiduFP8 $0.70 $2.24 $0.14203K131K100%24h +47%
ZenMux $0.58 $2.60 $0.14200K128K— +47%
Qiniu $0.58 $2.61 —200K128K— +47%
302.AI $0.60 $2.60 —205K131K— +49%
Zhipu AI $0.60 $2.69 $0.15205K131K— +52%
DInference $0.75 $2.40 —200K128K— +58%
CrossModel $0.60 $3.00 $0.16200K128K— +63%
Meganova $0.80 $2.56 $0.20203K131K— +68%
SiliconFlowFP8 $0.95 $2.55 $0.20205K131K99.8%24h +83%
TokenGo $0.89 $3.27 $0.22205K131K— +101%
Baseten $0.95 $3.15 $0.20203K203K— +103%
Amazon Bedrock $1.00 $3.20 —203K131K100%24h +110%
NovitaFP8 $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K100%24h +110%
Z.AIFP8 $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K99.7%24h +110%
VeniceFP8 $1.00 $3.20 $0.20198K32K99%24h +110%
Venice AI $1.00 $3.20 $0.20198K32K— +110%
Kilo Gateway $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K— +110%
Vercel AI Gateway $1.00 $3.20 —203K131K— +110%
LLM Gateway $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K— +110%
Together AI $1.00 $3.20 —203K131K— +110%
DigitalOcean $1.00 $3.20 $0.2064K64K— +110%
Novita AI $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K— +110%
Vertex $1.00 $3.20 $0.10200K128K— +110%
SiliconFlow (China) $1.00 $3.20 —205K205K— +110%
Abacus $1.00 $3.20 —205K131K— +110%
Tempr Gateway $1.00 $3.20 $0.20205K131K— +110%
Hugging Face $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K— +110%
Poe $1.00 $3.20 $0.20205K131K— +110%
Merge Gateway $1.00 $3.20 $0.20200K131K— +110%
Ofox $1.00 $3.20 $0.20205K131K— +110%
Impossibl $1.00 $3.20 $0.20205K131K— +110%
OrcaRouter $1.00 $3.20 $0.26205K131K— +110%
OpenCode $1.00 $3.20 $0.20205K131K— +110%
TensorX $1.00 $3.20 $0.25203K203K— +110%
Eden AI $1.00 $3.20 $0.20203K131K— +110%
Melious $1.10 $3.36 $0.27203K131K— +126%

Value

Price vs. performance

22 models score higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. Gemini 3.8 Flash.
23.2%47.6%72.0%96.4% $0.001$0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.15/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $1.36/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.30/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.044/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.44/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.08/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.14/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in o3 (OpenAI) — 81.8% · $2.00/1M in o4 Mini (OpenAI) — 79.6% · $1.10/1M in GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — 66.9% · $2.00/1M in GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — 65.8% · $0.40/1M in GPT-4.1 Nano (OpenAI) — 48.9% · $0.10/1M in Gemma 3 4B (Google) — 23.2% · $0.04/1M in Gemma 3 12B (Google) — 39.5% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 3 27B (Google) — 47.7% · $0.08/1M in Qwen-Plus (Qwen) — 48.1% · $0.26/1M in o3 Mini (OpenAI) — 77.0% · $1.10/1M in Phi 4 (Microsoft) — 56.1% · $0.07/1M in DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) — 71.2% · $0.26/1M in o1 (OpenAI) — 76.8% · $15.00/1M in Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — 47.4% · $0.10/1M in GPT-4o (2024-11-20) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in Mistral Large 2407 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (Meta) — 23.9% · $0.027/1M in GPT-4o (2024-08-06) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — 44.2% · $0.40/1M in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta) — 27.0% · $0.05/1M in GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in Gemma 2 27B (Google) — 36.5% · $0.65/1M in GPT-4o (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-05-13) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $5.00/1M in GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI) — 46.6% · $10.00/1M in Mistral Large (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $1.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $0.50/1M in GPT-4 (OpenAI) — 35.7% · $30.00/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.005/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.079/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.034/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $1.40/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $1.00/1M in GLM 5

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Benchmarks

9 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedSoftware engineering · Real GitHub issues fixed in Python repos 72.1% #20of 32 Claude Opus 4.783.5%
Terminal-BenchSoftware engineering · Tasks completed with the programs in a real terminal (best agent) 52.4% #16of 40 GPT-5.584.7%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $4,432 #33of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1436 #58of 90 Claude Opus 5.51820
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 87.8% #50of 122 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 4.9% #55of 75 GPT-6 Astra95.0%
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 44.7% #61of 75 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
SimpleBenchReasoning & knowledge · Common-sense trick questions about space, time and people 53.2% #30of 58 Claude Fable 581.9%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 80.0% #73of 120 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
z-ai/glm-5
Developer
Z.ai
Release date
Feb 11, 2026 ·
Context window
204,800 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
API price
$1.00 / $3.20 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
50
Input types
text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Free tier
No

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