Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Analysis Summary
GLM 5V Turbo is Z.ai's multimodal GLM variant, supporting text, image, and video input with a 203K context window. It includes tool use and function calling, giving teams a foundation for document-aware assistants, media analysis, and structured business workflows. Its measured intelligence is good, although the supplied data does not include a coding index for this variant.
The model suits visual content review, SEO operations involving media, long-document extraction, and customer-facing workflows that need multimodal input. Pricing at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens is higher than budget models, so high-volume drafting may be uneconomical. Use it where multimodal handling and context capacity justify the premium, with human oversight for complex actions.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
GLM 5V Turbo offers multimodal input, a 203K context, vision, video, and function calling with strong general capability. Its higher pricing and limited measured coding data make it better for supervised multimodal workflows than autonomous engineering.
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DFO Verdict
GLM 5V Turbo offers multimodal input, a 203K context, vision, video, and function calling with strong general capability. Its higher pricing and limited measured coding data make it better for supervised multimodal workflows than autonomous engineering.
How Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo compares
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo ranks #92 of 428 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 203K-token context window is larger than 57% of the models we list. At $1.20 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 23% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.20 | $0.001200 |
| Output | $4.00 | $0.004000 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout 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,..
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).
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.