GLM-5-Turbo

GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai designed for fast inference and strong performance in agent-driven environments such as OpenClaw scenarios. It is deeply optimized for real-world agent workflows involving long execution chains, with improved complex instruction decomposition, tool use, scheduled and persistent execution, and overall stability across extended tasks.

zhipuai/glm-5-turbo

Organization: Zhipu AI
Family: glm
Providers: 16
Context: 200,000
Output limit: 131,072
Knowledge: —
Release: 2026-03-16
Updated: 2026-03-16
Weights: Closed
Input: text
Output: text
Capabilities: Tools, Reasoning, Structured, Temperature

Providers

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

16 offers · USD per million tokens

Provider	Model ID	Context	Output	Input / output · 1M	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Details
Cortecs	glm-5-turbo	202,752	202,752	$1.186 / $3.955	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
CrossModel	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	128,000	$0.90 / $3.70	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
DevPass (LLM Gateway)	glm-5-turbo	200,000	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Eden AI	zai/glm-5-turbo	202,752	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Impossibl	zai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Kilo Gateway	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	202,752	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	No	View
LLM Gateway	tencent/glm-5-turbo	200,000	128,000	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	No	View
Merge Gateway	zai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	No	View
NanoGPT	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	202,800	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	No	Yes	Yes	View
Ofox	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Z.AIvia OpenRouter	z-ai/glm-5-turbo unknown	202,752	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	No	View
Tempr Gateway	zai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
TensorX	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	202,752	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Venice AI	z-ai-glm-5-turbo	200,000	32,768	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Vercel AI Gateway	zai/glm-5-turbo	202,800	131,072	$1.20 / $4.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
ZenMux	z-ai/glm-5-turbo	200,000	128,000	$0.73 / $3.19	Yes	Yes	Yes	View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens

Input from$0.73Per 1M input tokens

Output from$3.19Per 1M output tokens

Available offers16Across 16 providers

Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 1 lowest-priced configuration

InputOutput

Z.AIz-ai

$1.20$4.00

z-ai/glm-5-turboObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Input: $1.20
Output: $4.00
Cache read: $0.24

Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates

Endpoint	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cache read / 1M	Cache write / 1M
Z.AIz-ai	$1.20	$4.00	$0.24	—

Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.

Performance

Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Z.AIz-ai

7,945.5–42,221.41 ms

All latency percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Z.AIz-ai	7,945.5 ms	9,759 ms	14,636.4 ms	42,221.41 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Z.AIz-ai

25.5–42.89 t/s

All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Z.AIz-ai	25.5 t/s	29 t/s	33 t/s	42.89 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window

Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 1 endpoint

Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours

Z.AIz-aiObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

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100%

99.94%

Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.

Benchmarks

Review attributed evaluation results on each source's original scale.

External evaluations

z-ai/glm-5-turboObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Design Arena	Category	Elo	Win rate	Rank
models	3d	1,264	55.9%	25
models	asciiart	1,167	49.2%	34
models	codecategories	1,269	54%	28
models	dataviz	1,272	55.1%	23
models	gamedev	1,260	53.2%	31
models	svg	1,206	55%	23
models	uicomponent	1,270	55.5%	29
models	website	1,270	53.4%	30

Sources: Artificial Analysis and Design Arena, via OpenRouter. Scores retain their original scales and are not OpenAI Suite ratings.

Detailed evaluations

Evaluation	Configuration	Source	Results	Details
models · uicomponent	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,270 Elo	Details
models · asciiart	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,167 Elo	Details
models · gamedev	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,260 Elo	Details
models · codecategories	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,269 Elo	Details
models · 3d	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,264 Elo	Details
models · dataviz	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,272 Elo	Details
models · svg	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,206 Elo	Details
models · website	GLM 5 Turboz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315	Design Arena	1,270 Elo	Details

Sources: Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and OpenRouter. Evaluation configurations and scales differ; results are not interchangeable. Updated Oct 4, 2026.

Technical details & API

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Current route specifications

z-ai/glm-5-turboObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Context: 202,752
Maximum output: 131,072
Tokenizer: Other
Input: text
Output: text
Moderation: No
Added to OpenRouter: 2026-03-15

Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Model IDz-ai/glm-5-turbo

Version IDz-ai/glm-5-turbo-20260315

Reasoning

Required: No
Enabled by default: Yes
Default effort: —
Supported efforts: —

Supported parameters

include_reasoning
max_tokens
reasoning
response_format
temperature
tool_choice
tools
top_k
top_p

Default parameters

top p: 0.95
temperature: 1

Frequently asked questions

Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.

How much does GLM-5-Turbo cost?

Listed rates start at $0.73 per million input tokens and $3.19 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer GLM-5-Turbo?

There are 16 cataloged offers across 16 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 200,000 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Yes. Support can vary by endpoint.

Catalog history · 2 recorded revisions

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

Sep 14, 2026 · 1a76b12fde23
Sep 12, 2026 · 1272db802899