MODEL PROOF
GLM 5
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 44.7 points · 50% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,446.3 ± 4.23 · 29,174 votes
- Context window
- 204.8K
- Maximum output
- 128K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.700 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $2.24 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Baidu: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Cheaper right now: $0.930/M at GMICloud — promotion 40% It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.700/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $2.24/M |
| Cached input | $0.140/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.700/M from Baidu.
8 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StreamLakestreamlake/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $1.92 | fp8 | 99.89% |
| GMICloudgmicloud/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $1.92 | fp8 | 99.41% |
| Baidubaidu/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.700 | $2.24 | fp8 | 99.46% |
| SiliconFlowsiliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.950 | $2.55 | fp8 | 99.66% |
| Venicevenice/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $3.20 | fp8 | 98.79% |
| Novitanovita/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $3.20 | fp8 | 99.99% |
| Z.AIz-ai/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $3.20 | fp8 | 99.96% |
| Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $3.20 | undeclared | 99.22% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1446.3default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Htmlslides #18 1147
- Godot games #21 1144
- Native Android apps #24 1161
- Full-stack apps #27 1121
- Mobile apps #32 1133
- Code categories #33 1252
- 3D #33 1237
- Game development #34 1247
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 204K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does GLM 5 cost?
$0.700/M in, $2.24/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does GLM 5 have an independent quality score?
GLM 5 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats GLM 5?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for GLM 5?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest GLM 5 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.700/M from Baidu.
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