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GLM 5
GLM-5 is a capable open-weight model from Zhipu with advanced reasoning and instruction following.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.60
- Output
- $1.90
- Cache read
- $0.10
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 279 tokens
- Longer than 28% of 465 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
27.9
Better than 69% of 326 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
75.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 60% of 309 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
29.3%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 60% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
82.0%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 51% of 291 scored models
IFBench
72.3%Following precise output instructions
Better than 77% of 215 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
43.2%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 80% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
98.2%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 95% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
75.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 60% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 78.2 tok/s
- Faster than 51% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 2.5 s
- Quicker than 68% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 66.6%
- About $0.27 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/glm-5",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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