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GLM 5OPEN
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $1.55 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 8% of the 200 open-weight models tracked here
- 14 of 18 Z.AI models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for GLM 5, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
About this model
GLM 5 is an open-weight AI model by Z.AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is GLM 5?
GLM 5 is an AI language model from Z.AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free.
Is GLM 5 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host GLM 5 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $1 per million input tokens and $3.2 per million output tokens.
What is GLM 5 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 82%, Humanity's Last Exam 29.3%, Long Context Reasoning 75.7%, IFBench 72.3%, τ²-Bench 98.2%, Terminal-Bench Hard 43.2%.
Can I self-host GLM 5?
Yes. GLM 5 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.