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GLM 5: price, performance and context
Open GLM 5 by Z.ai costs $0.60 per 1M input and $1.92 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 204.8K tokens in one request (≈ 610 pages of text) and scores 27.9 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 54 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 5 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.60
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.92
- Context window
- 204.8K tokens
- Max. output
- 128K tokens
- Performance index
- 27.9 points · rank 54 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $1.08 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Feb 11, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 8,800 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 11,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.003 | 3,400 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.005 | 1,900 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.064 | 160 |
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