GLM-5: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
GLM-5 is a language model from ZAI, released in February 2026, with a 200K-token context window, and pricing from $1.00/M input and $3.20/M output.
GLM-5 is Zhipu AI's flagship foundation model designed for complex system engineering and long-range Agent tasks, shifting focus from coding to engineering. It features 744B total parameters (40B activated) in a Mixture of Experts
GLM-5 benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for GLM-5 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How GLM-5 holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
GLM-5 Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Fri Oct 02 2026GLM-5 pricing
Providers
GLM-5 starts at $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens via FriendliAI. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 FriendliAI | $1.00 | — | $3.20 | 200.0K/128.0K | — | — | / |
 ZAI | $1.00 | — | $3.20 | 200.0K/128.0K | 3.00 | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
GLM-5 model size
GLM-5 has 744 billion parameters and was trained on 28.5 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.
GLM-5 context window
Input and output token limits for GLM-5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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GLM-5 latency
GLM-5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
GLM-5 examples
Recent arena outputs from GLM-5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
GLM-5 license
GLM-5 is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 744.0B parameters.
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use allowed
- Parameters
- 744.0B
MIT License - allows commercial use
GLM-5 resources
Official sources for GLM-5: provider documentation, official playground.
GLM-5 vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to GLM-5 are Gemini 3 Pro, Seed 2.0 Pro, MiMo-V2-Pro. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like GLM-5
Models ranked just above and below GLM-5 by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about GLM-5.