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GLM-5-Turbo

A closed-weight variant of GLM-5 tuned for OpenClaw-style agent workloads: scheduled triggers, long-running tasks and multi-step instruction decomposition.

Context: 205K tokens
Max output: 131K
Released: Mar 2026

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Hosted API price

List price via Z.AI · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $1.20 /1M
Output: $4.00 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

Transparency and funding

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Every provider serving GLM-5-Turbo, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving GLM-5-Turbo, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Z.AI Creator	$1.20	$4.00		$20.00	Visit website
Novita	$1.20	$4.00	$0.24	$20.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest GLM-5-Turbo by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest GLM-5-Turbo per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs GLM-5-Turbo
Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) xAI	$1.4583	$1.25	$2.50	1M		−13%
Grok 4.3 xAI	$1.4583	$1.25	$2.50	1M		−13%
o4-mini OpenAI	$1.50	$1.00	$4.00	200K	Jun 2024	−10%
o3-mini OpenAI	$1.65	$1.10	$4.40	200K	Oct 2023	−1%
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	$1.6667	$1.00	$5.00	200K	Feb 2025	0%
GLM-5-Turbo This model Z.AI	$1.6667	$1.20	$4.00	205K
GLM-5V-Turbo Z.AI	$1.6667	$1.20	$4.00	205K		0%
Qwen3-Coder-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$1.6667	$1.00	$5.00	1M		0%
Qwen3.7-Max Alibaba Cloud	$1.6667	$1.25	$3.75	1M		0%
Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		+5%
Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	$1.75	$1.25	$4.25	1M		+5%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What GLM-5-Turbo accepts and can do, as published by Z.AI.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.

Common questions

What is GLM-5-Turbo good for?

Hosted agent work, OpenClaw in particular: scheduled triggers, long-running tasks and breaking instructions into steps.

When is GLM-5-Turbo not a good fit?

Closed weights, so no self-hosting, and no published parameter count. Text only, no built-in web search, and it sits in the upper half of Z.AI's price range.

What is the cheapest way to run GLM-5-Turbo?

The cheapest hosted rate is $1.20 / $4.00 per 1M tokens via Z.AI.

Can I self-host GLM-5-Turbo?

No. Z.AI does not publish the weights; GLM-5-Turbo is available only through hosted APIs.