Alex Getmanearly AI signals

GLM-5

Z.ai

Released Updated
Context window
203K
202,752 tokens
Max output
131K
131,072 tokens
Input / Output
text → text

API pricing

USD / 1M tokens

InputOutputCached input
  • $1.00
zai-pricing
  • $3.20
zai-pricing
  • $0.20
zai-pricing

Timeline

  1. · Weights version · evidence link
Input / output price · USD / 1M tokens
ModelEvidence linksInput / output price
glm-5
standard
zai-pricing
API route unavailable
$1.00 / $3.20
  1. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · smg-project/smg · @hello-alexmcc
    Excerpt
    Atria-Dawn, `glm`, beside Atria-Dawn-Preview: the template writes the GLM-5 shape (`[gMASK]<sop>`, a reasoning-effort system turn, `<|system|>` / `<|user|>` / `<|assistant|>` / `<|observation|>` turns), the tools
  2. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · milabench/milabench · @bouthilx
    Excerpt
    - GLM-5: layout check before launch, loss from the last stage, checkpoint timing and checksums, crash cleanup; `benchmarks/megatron/dev.yaml`, `scripts/trillium/glm/`.
  3. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · maximhq/bifrost · @mickgvirtu
    Excerpt
    is not `schemas.Anthropic`, and the served model -- `glm-5`, `Kimi-K2`, ... -- is neither opus-4.8 nor Fable), so Claude Code's per-turn reminders were hoisted every
  4. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · anomalyco/models.dev · @models-dev-automation[bot]
  5. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · ai-dynamo/frontend-crates · @dundysm
  6. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · ai-dynamo/dynamo · @indrajit96
    Excerpt
    for any DSA model (including DeepSeek V3.2 and GLM-5), or matching `flashmla_kv`/`trtllm` kernels on K3.1's sharded DCP path. Kernels SGLang has not resolved at CLI
  7. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · ROCm/ATOM · @whx-sjtu
  8. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM · @moraxu
    Excerpt
    class is registered for both `DeepseekV3ForCausalLM` and `DeepseekV32ForCausalLM`; GLM-5 (`GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM`) and Mistral Large 3 subclass it, so exact-class matching excludes them. Kimi K2 declares `DeepseekV3ForCausalLM`
  9. · Evidence links · GitHub search · Z.ai · pulls · NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM · @kaiyux
    Excerpt
    - `modeling_glm5_next_vision.py`: the GLM-5 input processor takes the prefix tokenization cache (the fourth commit). Before, it tokenized every text prompt in full and ignored `enable_tokenization_cache`.
Specifications

GLM-5 is a model from Z.ai with open weights, released on 12 Feb 2026. The context window is 202,752 tokens. The maximum output is 131,072 tokens. Pricing is $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens.

Context window
202,752
Max output
131,072
Input
text
Output
text
Weights
Open
Input · USD / 1M tokens
$1.00
Output · USD / 1M tokens
$3.20
Cached input · USD / 1M tokens
$0.20

Questions

What is the context window of GLM-5?

The context window is 202,752 tokens. The maximum output is 131,072 tokens.

How much does GLM-5 cost?

Pricing is $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.20 per million.

Are the weights of GLM-5 publicly available?

Yes. Z.ai publishes the weights.

When was GLM-5 released?

On 12 Feb 2026.