GLM 5V Turbo
Z.AI · released Apr 1, 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 2, 2026GLM 5V Turbo is Z.AI's hosted-only flagship that accepts text, images and video, with a measured coding score that sits well above its overall chat rating. It is a coding-first pick among multimodal models, though creative writing and web development lag behind.
Choose this for coding-heavy workloads where its measured coding score is the headline strength, or for long-context multimodal tasks with image and video input. Use it if you want consistent pricing across every host and would rather pick by latency or trust than hunt for arbitrage. Skip it if you need open weights, a published parameter count, or strong creative writing and web development output.
The case for it
- Coding benchmark leader among its own measured skills: its coding score sits 55.5 points above its overall chat rating.
- Mathematics and hard prompts also rate above its overall average, by roughly 17–19 points.
- One first-party throughput figure is disclosed: 44.5 tokens per second on Z.AI's own endpoint.
The case against it
- Creative writing is its weakest measured skill, sitting 88.3 points below its coding score and 32.8 points below its overall rating.
- Web development coding is markedly weaker than its general coding score, by about 89–90 points.
- Proprietary weights with no published parameter count, which limits auditability and rules out local deployment; throughput is also unverified on two of its three hosts.
How good is it?
IntelligencePuzzles, maths, exam questions
Arena Text (overall)51st of 143 · 1433
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding45th of 143 · 1489
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Nobody we watch has scored GLM 5V Turbo for this. We would take the rating from Arena Agent (IPS).
WritingWe do not rate this
Two boards come close and neither tests writing: Arena Creative Writing asks people which of two replies they prefer, and LiveBench Language tests whether a model understood a passage. So we show where GLM 5V Turbo placed and give it no mark out of five.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done, which is why they get no rating.
Every published score for this model7 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 7 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
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
- 205K
- 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 | 205K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Z.AIfp8 | $1.20 / $4.00 | 203K | 22 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.AIfp8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
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.
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When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- 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+image+video->text
- Catalogue slug
- z-ai-glm-5v-turbo