Z.ai: GLM 5
Analysis Summary
Z.ai: GLM 5 sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #27 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.600 input and $1.92 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use and function calling.
Editorial notes
GLM 5 from Z.ai posts near-frontier intelligence and agentic scores with strong coding capability, tool use, and a 200K context window at competitive pricing.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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 leading..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
z-ai/glm-5
|
| Provider | z-ai |
| Release Date | February 11, 2026 |
| Context Length | 202,752 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
| Output | $1.92 | $0.001920 |
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