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GLM 5

Z.ai · released 6 months ago

GLM 5 is a Z.ai model with a 205K token context window — about 290 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$1.09

input / 1M tokens

$2.93

output / 1M tokens

205K

context — about 290 pages

0.78¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$1.09 per million tokens
Output
$2.93 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.230 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
Z.ai
Released
6 months ago (2026-02-11)
Context window
205K tokens — about 290 pages
Max output
131K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GLM 5

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0.37¢

for this task

60% input · 40% output

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Compare GLM 5

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Questions, answered

How much does GLM 5 cost on Alyph?

GLM 5 costs $1.09 per million input tokens and $2.93 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.78¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is GLM 5's context window?

205K tokens — about 290 pages. Replies can be up to 131K tokens long.

Can GLM 5 read images and files?

GLM 5 is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does GLM 5 show its reasoning?

Yes. GLM 5 can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

Test GLM 5 against GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)

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