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MODEL PROOF # GLM 5V Turbo Z.ai · 01 Apr 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$1.90** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 53.8 points · 72% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens [Gemini 3.6 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.6-flash/) is a further stored option with these losses: 131K → 66K max output Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,437.2 ± 6.41 · 10,436 votes Context window 202.75K Maximum output 131.07K Input modalities image, text, video Output modalities text Published input price $1.20 / 1M tokens Published output price $4.00 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Z.AI: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $1.20 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $4.00 /M | | Cached input | $0.240 /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. 1 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Z.AI z-ai/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.240 Context limit 202,752 tokens Output limit 131,072 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $1.20 | Output $4.00 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.91% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1437.2 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - Native Android apps #4 1267 - Agenticslides #5 1171 - Agenticslides(python pptx) #5 1183 - Pptxslides #5 1164 - Agentichtmlslides #7 1134 - Agenticslides(html) #7 1137 - Python pptxslides #20 1165 - Htmlslides #21 1120 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 202K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 131K | | Input modes | image, text, video | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | optional | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks. It natively handles image, video, and text inputs, excels at long-horizon planning, complex coding,... ## Questions this page answers What does GLM 5V Turbo cost? $1.20/M in, $4.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does GLM 5V Turbo have an independent quality score? GLM 5V Turbo has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats GLM 5V Turbo? 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 5V Turbo? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [Gemini 3.6 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.6-flash/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3.5 397B A17B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-397b-a17b/) - Same vendor [GLM 4.7](/models/z-ai__glm-4.7/) - Z.ai models [Z.ai](/providers/z-ai/) - Where this model appears [disagreement](/disagreement/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3.6 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/) - Same vendor [GLM 4.6](/models/z-ai__glm-4.6/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Claude Sonnet 4.5](/models/anthropic__claude-sonnet-4.5/) - Same vendor [GLM 4.5](/models/z-ai__glm-4.5/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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