Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5 at a glance
GLM-5 scales to 744B total and 40B active parameters, adds DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and ships under the MIT license on Hugging Face.
What changed with Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5
Z.ai's release notes list GLM-5 on February 12, 2026. The model card describes 744B total and 40B active parameters, up from GLM-4.5's 355B, with DeepSeek Sparse Attention for token efficiency and a focus on complex systems engineering and long-running agent tasks.
Z.ai reports results such as 77.8 on SWE-bench Verified and 56.2 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and claims the best open-source scores on reasoning, coding, and agent tests at release. These are self-reported. Weights are on Hugging Face under the MIT license.
Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5 benchmarks and pricing
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Output speedas of · Source for Output speed: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- 62 tokens/s
- Input price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $1.00
- Output price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $3.20
How it compares
Models that were current when this was published (released in the six months before it, newest version of each line), so these figures are from that time. Under each chart is the current best. (Models)
Current best (as of Nov 6, 2026): Claude Haiku 5.5, $0.10
Current best (as of Nov 6, 2026): Claude Haiku 5.5, $0.50
Where to compare Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5
Independent leaderboards and official resources for comparing this model yourself. Rankings change often; each site shows its own current data.
Leaderboards
General leaderboards
Why Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5 matters for businesses
Artificial Analysis lists GLM-5 (Reasoning) at about 62 tokens per second and $1.00/$3.20 per 1M input/output tokens, and now points users to later GLM-5.x releases. A permissive license on a frontier-class model gives agencies a strong self-hosting option for coding agents.
Sources for this story
- New Released (release notes) (opens in a new tab)Official
Z.ai Docs · docs.z.ai
- GLM-5 model card (opens in a new tab)Official
Z.ai on Hugging Face · huggingface.co
- GLM-5 model analysis (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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