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GLM 5

Available on OpenRouterOn OpenRouterAvailable nowGenerally availableClosed (can't be downloaded)Proprietary

GLM 5 is made by Z.ai (Zhipu). We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's cheap to use.

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Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Cheap$0.60 / $1.92
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$0.93
MemoryContext
205K
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
7 (7 independent7 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
11 Feb 2026
Made byVendor
Z.ai (Zhipu)
UnderstandsInputs
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Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

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No adjustable reasoning setting listed.

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OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as z-ai/glm-5.

Route it as z-ai/glm-5 at $0.60 in / $1.92 out per 1M tokens, 205K context. Listed since 11 Feb 2026.

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SWE Atlas - Codebase QnA20.5%DefaultGlm 5 (Mini-SWE-Agent)Independent testIndependentScale AI SEAL ↗1 Oct 2026mini-SWE-agentrank 13 (Scale rank accounts for CI); ±4.5; entry added 2026-02-25
SWE Atlas - Refactoring24.2%DefaultGlm-5 (Mini-SWE-Agent)Independent testIndependentScale AI SEAL ↗1 Oct 2026mini-SWE-agentrank 17 (Scale rank accounts for CI); ±6.27; entry added 2026-05-06
SWE Atlas - Test Writing28.7%DefaultGlm-5 (Mini-SWE)Independent testIndependentScale AI SEAL ↗1 Oct 2026mini-SWE-agentrank 8 (Scale rank accounts for CI); ±5.76; entry added 2026-03-26
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%DefaultIndependent testIndependentSWE-bench ↗13 Feb 2026mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0a0Official SWE-bench bash-only (mini-SWE-agent) run; data file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWE-bench/swe-bench.github.io/master/data/leaderboards.json; leaderboard not updated since 2026-02-26
SWE-bench Verified72.1%Defaultglm-5Independent testIndependentEpoch AI ↗15 Feb 2026—Epoch-run SWE-bench Verified (Epoch scaffold); no runs after 2026-06; stderr 2.1pt; data https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (swe_bench_verified.csv)
SWE-bench Verified (bash-only, mini-SWE-agent)72.8%HighIndependent testIndependentSWE-bench ↗17 Feb 2026mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0Official SWE-bench bash-only (mini-SWE-agent) run; data file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SWE-bench/swe-bench.github.io/master/data/leaderboards.json; leaderboard not updated since 2026-02-26
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM)10.1%Defaultzai-org/glm-5Independent testIndependentVectara ↗22 Sep 2026—factual consistency 89.9 %; answer rate 99.7 %; avg summary 74.4 words; HHEM-2.3 judge; effort not stated (API default)