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GLM-5 API Pricing

GLM-5 is Zhipu's mid-tier flagship text model for system engineering, coding, and long-range agent tasks. The live vendor table lists $1/M input and $3.2/M output, with cached input at $0.2/M. Checked by hand against docs.z.ai.

Input - per 1M tokens
$1.00/M
Source Z.AI flat
Output - per 1M tokens
$3.20/M
Context 200K flat
Cached input - per 1M tokens
$0.20/M
Storage limited-time free -80%
Effective - agentic blend
$0.572/M
92/8 split - 82% cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

GLM-5 API cost calculator.

Live calculator pre-loaded with current GLM-5 rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache assumptions and share the URL to share the calculation.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

GLM-5 cost on real workloads.

CODING AGENT

Repo implementation

$0.017/task
22,000 in - 3,000 out~5,824 units/$100
CODE REVIEW

Pull request review

$0.011/review
14,000 in - 1,800 out~9,455 units/$100
RAG

Knowledge base answer

$0.0063/query
9,000 in - 1,000 out~15,883 units/$100
CHATBOT

Support assistant

$0.00278/turn
2,500 in - 600 out~35,971 units/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

GLM-5 token counter and cost.

What's a token →
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (zai-org/GLM-5, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 469
Words 71
Tokens (estimated) 89 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.00009 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00028 USD
Cost as cached input $0.00002 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

GLM-5 vs similar models.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
GLM-5 Current $1.00 cache $0.20 $3.20 $0.572 agentic 92/8 200K Cheaper GLM-5 family base
GLM-5.1 $1.40 cache $0.26 $4.40 $0.78 +36% 200K Flagship agentic coding
GLM-5 Turbo $1.20 cache $0.24 $4.00 $0.70 deprecated · +22% 200K Delisted August 2026 - kept for reference
GLM-4.7 $0.60 cache $0.11 $2.20 $0.358 −37% 200K Mid-tier GLM agents
GLM-4.7 FlashX $0.07 cache $0.01 $0.40 $0.0511 −11× 200K Ultra-cheap GLM traffic
GLM-4.7 Flash Free cache Free Free Free free 200K Free registered-user tier
DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.32 cache $0.044 $3.96 $0.569 same 1M DeepSeek frontier discount tier
Qwen3.7 Plus $0.40 $1.60 $0.496 −13% · promo 1M Qwen coding and agents
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GLM-5 benchmarks

All benchmarks →

GLM-5 has published scores on 2 benchmarks we track; its best placing is #71 of 105 on ARC-AGI-2. All of these scores come from independent leaderboards, not from the lab.

Benchmark Score Rank Leader Source
ARC-AGI-2 Reasoning 4.9% ARC Prize verified, best result #71 of 105 GPT-6 Astra · 95% Official leaderboard ARC Prize Foundation
ARC-AGI-1 Reasoning 44.7% ARC Prize verified, best result #72 of 99 6 tied · 98.5% Official leaderboard ARC Prize Foundation

GLM-5 API pricing FAQ.

Practical pricing questions, separated from calculator assumptions and regional tiers.

Q · 01 What is GLM-5 priced at? +
GLM-5 is listed at $1/M input and $3.2/M output on the live Z.AI pricing table. Cached input is listed at $0.2/M. This page stores USD per-million-token pricing.
Q · 02 How is the effective price calculated? +
AI//COST uses the same 92/8 agentic blend everywhere. With an 82% cache hit rate, GLM-5's effective blended cost is $0.57/M.
Q · 03 Is prompt caching priced separately? +
Yes. The vendor table lists cached input at $0.2/M versus $1/M fresh input. Cached input storage is listed as limited-time free on the Z.AI page.
Q · 04 Are regional prices different? +
Z.AI publishes the official developer pricing page in USD. Chinese BigModel pages may surface overlapping model catalogs, but the quote tiles use the baseline row from the Z.AI developer pricing page, not a reseller or proxy price.
Q · 05 Is there a batch discount? +
No separate batch discount row is listed on the Z.AI pricing page for GLM-5. The quote tiles show real-time list pricing; batch economics should be treated as a separate calculator variant only when the vendor documents it.
Q · 06 How accurate is the tokenizer estimate? +
The browser widget uses a zhipu-tokenizer-estimate chars-per-token estimate for English text. It is useful for rough planning, but actual billing comes from the vendor API usage fields and can differ for Chinese, code, or mixed-language prompts.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against docs.z.ai · Last verified May 19, 2026
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