GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading...
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Among the 392 chat models on CoreAI, Z.ai: GLM 5 ranks #227 by context window — 205K tokens, roughly 153,600 words or 307 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #110 cheapest of 183 standard-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2026-02-11. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode).
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00222 on Z.ai: GLM 5's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.060. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Z.ai: GLM 5 and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Z.ai: GLM 5 handles 205K tokens of context — roughly 153,600 words, or about 307 pages of text in one conversation.
Z.ai: GLM 5's underlying rates are $0.95 per 1M input tokens and $2.55 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
No — Z.ai: GLM 5 is text-only. If you need image understanding, its standard-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.
Yes. Z.ai: GLM 5 can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Z.ai: GLM 5.1, MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7, inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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