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GLM 5zhipu/glm-5

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading...

Cheapest blended:$0.93 / 1M tokenson Zhipu AI · 1 provider listed

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$0.60$1.92$0.93—OpenAI-compatibleNeeds 27d agoTry →

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Works with

Point any of these clients at a hosting's base URL — they all speak at least one of this model's endpoint protocols (OPENAI_COMPATIBLE).

Capabilities

  • reasoning
  • coding
  • tool_calling
  • agentic_tasks
  • long_context
  • multilingual

Languages: en, zh

Code samples

Example using Zhipu AI — the cheapest hosting for this model as of last verification. Swap base_url and model to use a different provider from the matrix above.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="glm-5",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Technical specs

Context
203K
Max output
—
Parameters
744B
Release
2026-02-11
Training cutoff
—
License
MIT
Paper →Hugging Face →

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Frequently asked

How much does GLM 5 cost?+
The cheapest public hosting is $0.93 per 1M blended tokens on Zhipu AI. 1 total providers are listed above with per-input / per-output / cached pricing.
How do I access GLM 5 from outside China?+
All hostings listed above support global access. The official API (e.g. api.deepseek.com, dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com) accepts international credit cards and does not require a Chinese mobile number. For privacy-sensitive workloads, third-party aggregators like Together.ai host the model on US/EU infrastructure.
Is GLM 5 open-source? Can I fine-tune it?+
Yes. GLM 5 is open-weight under the MIT license. Weights are available on Hugging Face for local inference, fine-tuning, and commercial use (see license for specific terms).
Is GLM 5 OpenAI-compatible?+
Most listed hostings expose an OpenAI-compatible API, so you can point an existing openai SDK client at the Provider's base_url and use the Provider's model name. See the Code Samples above for a copy-pasteable example.
What's the maximum context window for GLM 5?+
The model supports up to 202,752 tokens of context (input + output). Some hosted versions may impose a smaller limit — check the "Context" column in the pricing matrix for each provider.