GLM-5

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

previous Z.ai · GLM

Verified 2026-09-03 against the provider's own page. 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

—

Max output

—

Weights

open

Caching

explicit

not stated on the pricing page

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

Nothing has moved since we started tracking it.

Where these numbers came from

https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-09-03. 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

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