GLM-5
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · GLM-5 · context window 204,800 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? DeepSeek V4.1 Flash matches or beats GLM-5 on the overall Arena and costs about $10.50/month versus $310.00/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $299.50/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 2 November 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run GLM-5
The same model is resold by 33 providers we track. The typical one charges 1.7× what the cheapest does — $1.55 against $0.9250 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | $0.6000 | $1.90 | $0.9250 |
| DeepInfra ↗ | $0.6000 | $2.08 | $0.9700 |
| Fastrouter | $0.6000 | $2.08 | $0.9700 |
| Alibaba CN | $0.5730 | $2.58 | $1.08 |
| LLM Gateway | $0.5730 | $2.58 | $1.08 |
| Llmgateway Providers | $0.5730 | $2.58 | $1.08 |
| Zenmux | $0.5800 | $2.60 | $1.09 |
| Qiniu AI | $0.5800 | $2.61 | $1.09 |
| 302.AI | $0.6000 | $2.60 | $1.10 |
| Zhipu AI | $0.5980 | $2.69 | $1.12 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 33. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with GLM-5
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- Input cost
- $0.00100
- Output cost
- $0.00160
- Per request
- $0.00260
- Per day
- $2.60
- Per month
- $78.00
Compare GLM-5 with
Source: Z.ai (Zhipu AI) GLM API pricing, via models.dev. Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 19 July 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.