Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

z-ai · Released Apr 1, 2026
Intelligence #139 / 715
47.8 our score
AA Index #92 / 428
35.3 Artificial Analysis
Input Price #548 / 715
$1.20 per 1M tokens
Output Price #525 / 715
$4.00 per 1M tokens
Context #308 / 715
202,752 tokens

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.

#139 of 715 overall Down 7 this week

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.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 81% of models #139
Price: cheaper than 23% of models #548
Context: larger than 57% of models #308
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo $1.20 in $4.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo 203K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence5Technical0Value7Content7.2
Performance profile

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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Pricing

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

What would Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

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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,..

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.

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