GLM-5
AvailableA Z.ai model with a 200K-token context window and tool calling. On the Z.ai Open Platform API since February 12, 2026.
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glm-5Open weights on Hugging Face: zai-org/GLM-5
Updated Oct 1, 2026
Capabilities & limits
- Context window
- 200K
- Maximum output
- 128K
- Image input
- Unsupported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
Pricing
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $1.00
- Output
- $3.20
Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Z.ai's pricing page.
Full rate card 4 rates
All prices in USD.
Input tokens
$1.00 per 1M tokensCached input
$0.20 per 1M tokens- prompt caching
Cached input storage
$0.00 per 1M tokens (storage unit not stated)- prompt caching
- limited-time free; end date not stated
Output tokens
$3.20 per 1M tokensPrice history
Oct 1, 2026
Input $1.00 per million tokens
Oct 1, 2026
Output $3.20 per million tokens
Technical details
- Parameters
- 744B
- Active parameters
- 40B
- Architecture
- Mixture of experts with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
- Training / knowledge cutoff
- Not published
- Input modalities
- Text
- Output modalities
- Text
From Z.ai
Official announcement ↗How they describe it
designed for Agentic Engineering
What they say is new
GLM-5 scales from 355B parameters (32B active) to 744B parameters (40B active)
Release & lifecycle
- First available
- Feb 12, 2026
- available
- As of Oct 1, 2026