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GLM 5 Turbo

Added Mar 15, 2026Open weights

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Fast GLM 5 Turbo variant from Z-AI for general chat, coding, and tool use.

  • Tools
  • Structured output
Input
Text
Output
Text
Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$1.20
Output
$4.00
Cache read
$0.24

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
202.8K
Max output
131.1K
Average output (7 days)
557 tokens
Longer than 52% of 465 models

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GLM 5 Turbo compared

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GLM 5 TurboZ.aiThis modelClaude 4.6 OpusAnthropicRemove
ProviderZ.aiAnthropic
Discovery tierOpen weightsFrontier
AddedMar 15, 2026Feb 5, 2026
Limits
Context window202.8K1MBest
Max output131.07KBest128K
Average output557 tokens1.4K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$1.20Best$5.00
Output$4.00Best$25.00
Cache read$0.24Best$0.50
Performance
Throughput—45.7 tok/s
Time to first token—2.8 s
Request success (24h)100.0%100.0%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index26.6Best26.4
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Reasoning effort—low, medium, high, xhigh, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • GLM 5 Turbo
  • Claude 4.6 Opus

Intelligence Index

  • GLM 5 Turbo26.6
  • Claude 4.6 Opus26.4

GLM 5 Turbo: Better than 67% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 71.7%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 67.0%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 27.8%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 19.1%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 84.7%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 84.0%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 73.2%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 44.6%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 33.3%
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 48.5%Top

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 98.5%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 84.8%

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • GLM 5 Turbo: 71.7%Top
    • Claude 4.6 Opus: 67.0%

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.

Prompt cache hits
31.9%
About $0.89 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
100.0%
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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 37.5%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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-turbo",
    "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-turbo",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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