Z.ai: GLM 5
Provider: z-ai · z-ai/glm-5
How Z.ai: GLM 5 pricing compares
At $1.92 / 1M output tokens, Z.ai: GLM 5 is the 7th-cheapest of 14 z-ai models we track. It's cheaper than 52% of the 392 paid models on computetrail (189th-cheapest overall). Output costs 3.2× its input price ($0.6 / 1M in). For a typical 3:1 input-to-output workload that works out to about $0.93 / 1M blended. Reading cached input costs 80% less than fresh input, so prompt caching cuts repeat-context cost sharply. Its 204,800 tokens context window ranks 233rd-largest of 392 models with a published limit.
Output price history
Across 60 daily snapshots since 2026-06-29, the output price has held steady at $1.92 / 1M — no change so far.
Similar-priced models
| Model | Provider | Output $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash | $1.875 | 1,048,576 | |
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) | $1.875 | 1,048,576 | |
| SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | x-ai | $2 | 256,000 |
| Z.ai: GLM 4.6 | z-ai | $2 | 204,800 |
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 | mistralai | $2 | 131,072 |
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 | mistralai | $2 | 131,072 |
Prices are recorded daily from public provider data via OpenRouter and normalized to USD per 1M tokens. See methodology.