GLM 5

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading...

by Z.ai

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

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1 benchmarks

Avg Latency

6.2s

4 requests

Pricing

$0.60 in / $1.92 out

per 1M tokens

Context

203K

tokens

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Benchmark Performance

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Benchmark	Score	Rank
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test	33%	81 / 107

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Score Over Time

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Benchmark Activity

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Quickstart

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Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "z-ai/glm-5",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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