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GLM-5 (EmberCloud)
zhipuai·zhipuai/glm-5-8·GA·Open weights·glm series
General GLM flagship for coding, analysis, and tool-heavy engineering workflows
At a glance
Reference price$0.72 / $2.30 per 1M
Cache read $0.144 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.72 / $2.30
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context203,000
Output limit131,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-02-12 / 2026-02-12
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway embercloud/glm-5 | Gateway | $0.72 | $2.30 | $0.144 | — | 203,000 | 131,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$189.88
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = max
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.72Output list $2.30Min blended $1.11
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.