Faster GLM-5 lane for coding agents that need lower latency
GLM-5-Turbo by zhipuai is offered by 18 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 17 of them. Its official list price is $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is 302.AI at $0.72 / $3.20 per 1M, about 1.7× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 26.6 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $1.34 per 1M, that is roughly 20 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.
The context window is 200,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 200,000 to 202,800, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z.AI Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 200,000 | 131,072 | ||
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.72 | $3.20 | — | — | 200,000 | 131,072 | |
| ZenMux | Gateway | $0.73 tiered >32K: $1.02 | $3.19 | $0.17 | — | 200,000 | 128,000 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $0.90 tiered >32K: $1.10 | $3.70 | $0.18 | $0.90 | 200,000 | 128,000 | |
| Z.AIOfficial | First-party | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | $0 | 200,000 | 131,072 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 202,800 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 202,752 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Venice AI z-ai-glm-5-turbo | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 200,000 | 32,768 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 202,752 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 200,000 | 131,072 | |
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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 6 of 18 providers.
1 / 18 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
1 more channels offer $0 (Z.AI Coding Plan); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.