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GLM-5

744B MoE (40B active, 256 experts)

Zhipu's flagship. First Chinese public AI company's frontier model. 92.7% AIME 2026 I, 86.0% GPQA-Diamond. Also available internationally at docs.z.ai.

chat OpenAI-compatible Function calling 205K context Released 2026-02

Pricing

Type USD / 1M tokens
Input $1
Output $3.2
Cached Input $0.2

vs Western Models

GLM-5 vs GPT-5.2 ($1.75/$14)
43% cheaper input 77% cheaper output
GLM-5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15)
67% cheaper input 79% cheaper output
GLM-5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro ($1.25/$10)
20% cheaper input 68% cheaper output

Benchmarks

Benchmark Score
SWE-bench 77.8%

IDE Setup

Cursor

base_url: https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4
model: glm-5

Cline

base_url: https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4
model: glm-5

Strengths

  • + coding
  • + agentic tasks
  • + reasoning
  • + 200K context

Watch Out For

  • ! content censorship
  • ! 30% price increase over GLM-4.7

International Access

Direct access: Yes
Latency from US: 200-400ms
Registration: account
Payment: credit card

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