General GLM flagship for coding, analysis, and tool-heavy engineering workflows
GLM-5 by zhipuai is offered by 52 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 45 of them. Its official list price is $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $3.20 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is GMI Cloud at $0.60 / $1.92 per 1M, about 2.0× below the list price. It also has 6 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 204,800 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 64,000 to 205,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Token Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| SCNet Token Plan GLM-5 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | — | 204,800 | 131,072 | ||
| Tencent Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| GMI Cloud zai-org/GLM-5-FP8 | Cloud | $0.60 | $1.92 | $0.12 | — | 202,752 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.60 | $1.92 | $0.12 | — | 198,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.60 | $1.92 | $0.12 | — | 204,800 | 128,000 | |
| Deep Infra zai-org/GLM-5 | Cloud | $0.60 | $2.08 | $0.12 | — | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Zhipu AIOfficial | First-party | $1.00 | $3.20 | $0.20 | $0 | 204,800 | 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.
6 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan (China), Alibaba Coding Plan etc.); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 72.8 | resolved | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | harness: Mini-SWE-Agent | 20.5 | score | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Atlas Refactoring | harness: Mini-SWE-Agent | 24.24 | score | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Atlas Test Writing | harness: Mini-SWE-Agent | 28.74 | score | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
12 / 52 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).