GLM 5
z-ai/glm-5-20260211
Z.ai: GLM 5 is a text-to-text model with a context length of 204,800 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning capabilities. The model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens, and it is an open-weight model.
- tool use
- structured outputs
- reasoning
- open-weight
At a glance
Specifications
What the API gives you
- Context window
- 205K tokens
- Max output
- 131K tokens
- Input price
- $1 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $3.20 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.20 / 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text → text
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Released
- Feb 11, 2026
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- Design Arena Coding
- 1247 Elo2026-10-21
- Design Arena Full-stack Agent
- 1123 Elo2026-10-14
- Design Arena UI
- 1230 Elo2026-10-21
- Design Arena Website
- 1247 Elo2026-10-21
- GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)
- 87.8% ± 2.32026-02-12evaluated 2026-02-12
- LMArena Creative Writing
- 1438 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Instruction Following
- 1428 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Long Query
- 1446 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Math
- 1440 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text
- 1457 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Text Factuality
- 1452 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena WebDev
- 1435 Elo2026-10-19
- OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)
- 80% ± 62026-02-12evaluated 2026-02-12
- SWE-bench Verified (verified-500)‡
- 72.8%2026-10-21mini-SWE-agent 2.0.0, high effort, evaluated 2026-02-17
- tau2-bench (1.0.1)‡
- 9.8%2026-02-27enabled effort, evaluated 2026-02-27
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.
Open-weight model on Hugging Face.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence
82% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence
55% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence
44% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
42% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence
37% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence
28% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Show all 33 tasks
- Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence
27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMProvisional evidence
25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Tool & Function CallingProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 6 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence
14% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI). 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Agentic CodingProvisional evidence
11% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena Web-apps or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence
9% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.
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