GLM-5

Name: GLM-5
Brand: Z.ai · GLM
Price: 3.2 USD

previous Z.ai · GLM

Verified 2026-10-15 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

Input

$1.00

Cached input

$0.2

Cache write

—

Output

$3.20

Context window

200,000

Max output

128,000

Weights

open

Caching

automatic

stated on the model guide

Licence: MIT (reported)

Watch out

Verify on your own eval — the price gap to 5.2 is small

What we would use it for

Cheaper than 5.2 in both directions if the capability clears your bar

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-07-30. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

07-30 $3.20→08-06 $3.20→08-14 $3.20→08-20 $3.20→08-27 $3.20→09-03 $3.20→09-10 $3.20→09-17 $3.20→09-24 $3.20→10-01 $3.20→10-08 $3.20→10-15 $3.20

newly stated2026-09-24 · window, max_output — 200K / 128K from Z.ai's GLM-5 guide, newly cited.

Where these numbers came from

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-10-15. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

Discussed in Naderu Weekly

Three launches, no price rises — 2026-09-24
The name stayed. The model didn't. — 2026-09-10
Nobody changed a price this week — 2026-09-03
The price has a clock on it — 2026-08-27

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 69 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.