Faster GLM-5 lane for coding agents that need lower latency
GLM-5-Turbo by zhipuai is offered by 17 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 15 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 2 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 39.1 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $1.34 per 1M, that is roughly 29 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. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-01-01.
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 | ||
| Zhipu AI Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 200,000 | 131,072 | ||
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.72 | $3.20 | — | — | 200,000 | 131,072 | |
| ZenMux | Gateway | $0.88 | $3.48 | — | — | 200,000 | 128,000 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $0.90 tiered >32K: $1.10 | $3.70 | $0.18 | $0.90 | 200,000 | 128,000 | |
| Cortecs | Gateway | $1.19 | $3.96 | $0.296 | $1.54 | 202,752 ⚠ | 202,752 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 202,800 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 200,000 | 131,072 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | — | 202,800 ⚠ | 131,100 | |
| TensorX | Gateway | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.30 | $1.50 | 202,752 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Z.AIOfficial | First-party | $1.20 | $4.00 | $0.24 | $0 | 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.
2 more channels offer $0 (Z.AI Coding Plan, Zhipu AI Coding Plan); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
3 / 17 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).