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GLM-5.1

GLM-5.1 is an open-weight model from Z.ai, released Apr 7, 2026. It ranks #39 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1463. It costs $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.

LMArena text1463+0 in 30 days
Rank#39/351
95% interval1459–1466
Votes65.4K
Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Released
Apr 7, 2026
Context window
200K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$1.40 / $4.40
Weights
Open · MIT
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
702.2K
Hugging Face likes
1.9K
GLM-5.1, LMArena text rating over time
14501458146514731480Apr 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestGLM-5.1 1463

The rating LMArena published at each update since Apr 7, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
SWE-benchCoding76.40%38 / 85$0.46
Vibe Code BenchCoding31.46%73 / 115$2.89
LiveCodeBenchCoding81.38%63 / 143$1 / $3.2
Legal Research BenchLaw27.89%57 / 85$0.39
MedCodeMedicine41.60%52 / 107$1 / $3.2
GPQA DiamondReasoning84.52%52 / 138$1 / $3.2
MMLU-ProReasoning86.90%37 / 138$1 / $3.2
AIMEReasoning91.88%22 / 96$1 / $3.2

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena146339 / 35165.4K
CodingLMArena148645 / 34617.7K
MathLMArena147442 / 3393.2K
Creative writingLMArena145332 / 34912.8K
Instruction followingLMArena145249 / 35122.9K
Hard promptsLMArena147345 / 35142.7K
Multi-turnLMArena147233 / 34910.3K
Long queriesLMArena146744 / 33029.4K
ExpertLMArena147850 / 3057K
Legal and governmentIndustries146545 / 3255.1K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries147333 / 3254.6K
Business and financeIndustries145241 / 34412.5K
ChineseLanguages151435 / 3284.6K
SpanishLanguages146932 / 2492.2K
GermanLanguages146734 / 2611.1K
FrenchLanguages147150 / 2522.4K
JapaneseLanguages143541 / 236906
WebDevLMArena150861 / 12410.7K

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-5.1

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-5.1?

GLM-5.1 is made by Z.ai (Zhipu AI), founded 2019 and based in Beijing.

How much does GLM-5.1 cost?

$1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is GLM-5.1’s context window?

200K tokens (204,800).

How does GLM-5.1 rank?

#39 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1463 (95% interval 1459–1466) from 65,402 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is GLM-5.1 open source?

GLM-5.1 has open weights under the MIT license, downloadable from Hugging Face (zai-org/GLM-5.1).

Sources

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