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GLM-5

GLM-5 is an open-weight model from Z.ai, released Feb 11, 2026. It ranks #59 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1446. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.

LMArena text1446−0 in 30 days
Rank#59/351
95% interval1442–1450
Votes29.3K
Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Released
Feb 11, 2026
Context window
200K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$1 / $3.20
Weights
Open · MIT
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
1.1M
Hugging Face likes
2.1K
GLM-5, LMArena text rating over time
14301440145014601470Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestGLM-5 1446

The rating LMArena published at each update since Feb 10, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
SWE-benchCoding71.40%55 / 85$0.45
Vibe Code BenchCoding23.36%78 / 115$40.27
LiveCodeBenchCoding81.87%59 / 143$1 / $3.2
MedQAMedicine94.27%18 / 92$1 / $3.2
GPQA DiamondReasoning83.33%58 / 138$1 / $3.2
MMLU-ProReasoning86.03%51 / 138$1 / $3.2
AIMEReasoning91.67%23 / 96$1 / $3.2

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena144659 / 35129.3K
CodingLMArena146183 / 3467.6K
MathLMArena144085 / 3391.7K
Creative writingLMArena143851 / 3494.9K
Instruction followingLMArena142877 / 3519.6K
Hard promptsLMArena145271 / 35118.2K
Multi-turnLMArena145652 / 3494.7K
Long queriesLMArena144669 / 33011.1K
ExpertLMArena145479 / 3052.6K
Legal and governmentIndustries145463 / 3252.3K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries145660 / 3252.1K
Business and financeIndustries143080 / 3445.9K
ChineseLanguages151138 / 3282K
SpanishLanguages145452 / 2491.1K
GermanLanguages144760 / 261511
FrenchLanguages145576 / 252910
JapaneseLanguages141756 / 236275
WebDevLMArena143586 / 1247.5K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

Compare GLM-5

Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

A Tsinghua spin-out that builds the GLM family of open bilingual models. Founded 2019, based in Beijing. z.ai

Questions

Who makes GLM-5?

GLM-5 is made by Z.ai (Zhipu AI), founded 2019 and based in Beijing.

How much does GLM-5 cost?

$1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is GLM-5’s context window?

200K tokens (204,800).

How does GLM-5 rank?

#59 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1446 (95% interval 1442–1450) from 29,267 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is GLM-5 open source?

GLM-5 has open weights under the MIT license, downloadable from Hugging Face (zai-org/GLM-5).

Sources

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