Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Analysis Summary
GLM 5V Turbo is Z.ai's vision-capable turbo model, combining text, image, and video input with tool use and function calling across a 202K token context window. Its agentic index of 65.6 is competitive, and the intelligence index of 34.5 places it in the good-to-strong tier for general reasoning tasks.
For businesses, the combination of vision, large context, and strong agentic performance makes it a credible candidate for document analysis, multimodal automation, and tool-orchestrated workflows. The tau2 score near 0.99 suggests reliable instruction adherence in agentic pipelines. The main limitation is that coding benchmarks are absent, so software engineering tasks cannot be fully assessed.
Pricing at $1.20 input and $4.00 output is moderate but not cheap for its capability tier. Teams already evaluating Z.ai's ecosystem will find this a capable multimodal agent model; others should weigh adoption overhead against alternatives with broader enterprise tooling.
Assessed July 10, 2026
Editorial notes
GLM 5V Turbo from Z.ai pairs a strong agentic index with vision and tool use across a 200K context, though a -4 point regional penalty applies given limited enterprise adoption.
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DFO Verdict
GLM 5V Turbo from Z.ai pairs a strong agentic index with vision and tool use across a 200K context, though a -4 point regional penalty applies given limited enterprise adoption.
How Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo compares
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo ranks #65 of 398 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 203K-token context window is larger than 59% 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 technical. The pulled-in intelligence 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.
