General GLM flagship for coding, analysis, and tool-heavy engineering workflows
GLM-5 by zhipuai is offered by 53 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 46 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 Vultr at $0.40 / $1.75 per 1M, about 2.8× 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.
Artificial Analysis rates it 27.9 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.738 per 1M, that is roughly 38 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 82 tokens per second, with 1.43s to the first token.
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 2025-12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Token Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | 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 Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 202,752 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Vultr glm-5.x-menthol | Cloud | $0.40 | $1.75 | — | — | 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 | |
| GMI Cloud zai-org/GLM-5-FP8 | Cloud | $0.60 | $1.92 | $0.12 | — | 202,752 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Z.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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 39 of 53 providers.
8 / 53 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
6 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China) 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.
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.