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GLM 5 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 14, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

GLM 5 was released on February 11, 2026. Pricing starts at $0.800 per million input tokens and $2.56 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 203K tokens. API access is available through Z-ai.

Context Window
203K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.800
Output$2.56
Cached$0.160
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Caching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GLM 5 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.800
$2.560
202,752
Try
$0.650
$0.750
131,072
Try
$0.650
$0.750
32,768
Try
$0.650
$0.650
38.4
16.7
8,192
Try
$0.700
$1.400
131,072
Try
$0.700
$2.500
61.7
84.4
70.8
64,000
Try
$0.750
$1.200
131,072
Try
$0.750
$1.000
8,000
Try
$0.800
$1.200
81,920
Try
$0.800
$1.200
4,096
Try
$0.800
$1.600
32,768
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

GLM 5 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

10
Providers
$0.800
Cheapest Input/M
$2.560
Cheapest Output/M
AtlasCloud
Best Price

Provider Pricing

10 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
A
AtlasCloud
Best Price
$0.800
$2.560
97.2%
P
Parasail
$1.000
$3.200
70.5%
Z
Z.AI
$1.000
$3.200
96.3%
F
Friendli
$1.000
$3.200
97.6%
T
Together
$1.000
$3.200
98.8%
V
Venice
$1.000
$3.200
97.8%
G
GMICloud
$1.000
$3.200
97.8%
F
Fireworks
$1.000
$3.200
99.9%
N
Novita
$1.000
$3.200
99.8%
P
Phala
$1.200
$3.500
85.3%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

GLM 5 costs $0.000800 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002560 per 1,000 output tokens.
GLM 5 is available from 10 provider(s). AtlasCloud offers the best price.
We compare GLM 5 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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