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# Z.ai: GLM 5 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Z.ai: GLM 5: $0.600/M in, $1.92/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GLM 5

Z.ai · released 2026-02-11

 $0.930 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.600 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.92 /M |
| Cached input | $0.120 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1445.2 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - godotgamedev #16 of 43 1144
- htmlslides #17 of 34 1160
- fullstack #24 of 59 1155
- androidnative #24 of 54 1171
- mobileapps #25 of 56 1188
- gamedev #27 of 144 1270
- 3d #27 of 136 1274
- codecategories #28 of 145 1272

### Capability

| Context window | 205K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 128K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...