GLM 5 Turbo
Z.AI · released Mar 15, 2026
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $1.20
- Output
- $4.00
- Cached
- $0.24
List price · per 1M tokens · Z.AI at 203K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026GLM 5 Turbo is a hosted-only text model from Z.AI that can handle up to 202,752 tokens in a single request. It is priced identically across its three providers, which removes the usual need to shop around for a cheaper host.
Pick this for long-document processing where a 200-thousand-token request limit matters and you want predictable costs without hunting for price differences between hosts. Skip it if you need image, audio or video input, if you want to download and run the model yourself, or if you need benchmark scores to verify quality before you buy.
The case for it
- 202,752-token request limit, large enough for substantial long-form text work.
- Identical pricing across all three tracked providers, so cost is consistent wherever you host it.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data, so there is no measured quality to weigh against similarly-priced alternatives.
- Throughput undisclosed for two of the three providers; only Z.AI reports 21 tokens per second.
- Parameter count not published and no licence terms available, leaving the model's scale and usage restrictions unverified.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up GLM 5 Turbo — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Z.AI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $1.20 in / $4.00 out
- Context served
- 203K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $1.20 / $4.00 | 203K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Novita AI | $1.20 / $4.00 | 203K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Z.AI | $1.20 / $4.00 | 203K | 19 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
OpenRouterAcross the 3 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Novita AI | |||
| Z.AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 2 of 3 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 2 of 3 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 0 of 3 listings say yes, 2 say no, 1 publishes no parameter list.
Models people weigh against GLM 5 Turbo
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 3 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 3 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text->text
- Catalogue slug
- z-ai-glm-5-turbo