Z.ai (Zhipu) · Released Feb 12, 2026GLM-5
General GLM flagship for coding, analysis, and tool-heavy engineering workflows.
- Capability
- 145.8ECI · #74 of 148
- Input
- $1.00per 1M tokens
- Output
- $3.20per 1M tokens
- Context
- 205K131K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $1.00per million tokens
- Output
- $3.20per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.20per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.55pricier than 64% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $3.60 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $41.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $410.00 |
Official Z.AI API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#74 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (143.9–147.7); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Z.ai (Zhipu).
The details
- Lab
- Z.ai (Zhipu)
- Released
- Feb 12, 2026
- Context window
- 204,800 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Can be switched on or off
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
glm-5on Z.AI- Availability
- 27 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Z.ai (Zhipu) claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About GLM-5
How much does GLM-5 cost?
GLM-5 costs $1.00 input / $3.20 output per million tokens (official Z.AI API price). Cached input is $0.20 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.55 per million tokens, more expensive than 64% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of GLM-5?
GLM-5 accepts up to 204,800 tokens per request and can write up to 131,072 tokens in one response.
How good is GLM-5?
Epoch AI gives GLM-5 a Capabilities Index score of 145.8 (likely range 143.9–147.7), ranking it #74 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 87.8%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 80.0%, SWE-bench Verified 72.1%.
Is GLM-5 open source?
Yes. Z.ai (Zhipu) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does GLM-5 support?
GLM-5 accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was GLM-5 released?
Z.ai (Zhipu) released GLM-5 on Feb 12, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to GLM-5?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Qwen3.5 397B-A17B (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 146.7, $0.60 / $3.60), Kimi K2 Thinking (Moonshot AI, ECI 146.0, $0.60 / $2.50), GPT-5.4 mini (OpenAI, ECI 148.8, $0.75 / $4.50) and Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (NVIDIA, ECI 146.2, $0.50 / $2.50).