GLM-5
Z.ai llmZ.ai's frontier flagship, roughly double the scale of GLM-4.5, built for long-horizon agentic engineering with sparse attention over a 200K-token context.
overall ⌄
52.6
35 of 93 ranked
price · $/M tokens
1 / 3.2
in / out, as of 2026-07-25
to run it yourself ⌄
446 GB
minimum · 1.8 TB recommended
Benchmarks
What its maker published, and what anyone else measured. Every figure links the document it came from.
Cheaper, and at least as good
On a 1,000-in, 1,000-out call these cost less and rank no lower — a hard comparison to argue with, and a narrow one. Value covers what it misses.
| DeepSeek V4-Flash DeepSeek | $0.00042 | overall 59.3 |
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| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | $0.00150 | overall 65.1 |
| GLM-4.7 Z.ai | $0.00280 | overall 53.1 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Google | $0.00350 | overall 53.6 |
Lineage
No recorded lineage — root or standalone model.
Metadata
| org | Z.ai |
| released | 2026-02-12 |
| params | 744B-A40B |
| license | mit |
| hf id | zai-org/GLM-5 |