Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

z-ai · Released Apr 1, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #10 / 576
82.0 Our Score
AA Index #43 / 378
42.9 Artificial Analysis
Input #452 / 577
$1.20 per 1M tokens
Output #449 / 577
$4.00 per 1M tokens
Context #192 / 577
202,752 tokens

Analysis Summary

Z.ai's GLM 5V Turbo is a multimodal model with an intelligence index of 42.9 and an agentic index of 65.6, placing it in the strong mid-tier for agentic workflows. It supports text, image, and video inputs with tool use and function calling, and offers a 202K context window. Its tau2 score of 0.985 is among the highest in the landscape, indicating very reliable task completion in agentic settings.

For businesses, GLM 5V Turbo is well suited to multimodal agent pipelines, visual content analysis, and tool-augmented workflows where video and image understanding are required. Its coding index of 36.2 is moderate, so it is less suited to heavy software engineering tasks. Instruction following is adequate but not exceptional.

At $1.20 input and $4.00 output per million tokens, it is priced competitively for its capability tier. A -4 point regional penalty applies given Z.ai's limited enterprise adoption, bringing the final score to 72. Teams comfortable with the provider can leverage its strong agentic and multimodal capabilities effectively.

Assessed June 6, 2026

Editorial notes

GLM 5V Turbo from Z.ai combines strong agentic performance, vision and video support, and a 202K context window with competitive pricing, though its coding capability is moderate.

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Performance Profile

Intelligence5.9Technical6.6Value7Content7
Intelligence 5.9/10
Technical 6.6/10
Content 7/10
Value 7/10

How Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo compares

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo ranks #43 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #61 of 315 for coding, #32 of 289 for agentic tasks. Its 203K-token context window is larger than 67% of the models we list. At $1.20 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 22% of comparable models.

About Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks. It natively handles image, video, and text inputs, excels at long-horizon planning, complex coding,..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

42.9 Intelligence Index
36.2 Coding Index
65.6 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 80.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 15.8% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 43.5% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 32.6% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 98.5% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 61.1% Instruction following
LCR 61% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID z-ai/glm-5v-turbo
Providerz-ai
Release Date April 1, 2026
Context Length202,752 tokens
Max Completion131,072 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.20 $0.001200
Output $4.00 $0.004000

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Frequently asked questions about Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

How much does Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo cost?

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo?

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo has a context window of 202,752 tokens (203K).

Is Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo ranks #61 of 315 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo do?

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo?

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo is developed by Z.ai and was released on April 1, 2026.