GLM-5 Turbo.
Faster, cheaper sibling of GLM-5 on z.ai.
Cheapest hosted endpoints.
Speed across providers.
Tokens/sec and time-to-first-token measured against the same prompt template on each provider's API.
| Provider | Tokens/sec | TTFT | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | 14.1 | — | 35568 ms |
Variants in the GLM family.
GLM-4.5
Zhipu's frontier open-weight MoE — 355B total, 32B active. Strong agentic + r...
GLM-4.5-Air
Smaller, cheaper sibling of GLM-4.5. 106B total, 12B active.
GLM-5.1
Zhipu's GLM 5.1 series — successor to GLM-5 on z.ai's API.
GLM-5
Zhipu's GLM 5 generation — closed flagship between GLM-4.7 and GLM-5.1.
GLM-4.7
Mid-generation GLM 4.7 released between GLM-4.6 and GLM-5.
GLM-4.6
Incremental upgrade on GLM-4.5 — improved reasoning, same context window.
GLM-4.5-Flash
Lowest-latency, lowest-cost variant of GLM-4.5 on z.ai.
Frequently asked.
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How much does it cost to run GLM-5 Turbo?
Is GLM-5 Turbo open-source or proprietary?
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for GLM-5 Turbo across every host that publishes per-token pricing. Slide your token volumes; the chart + table re-rank cheapest-first.
Cheapest provider on the left.
Total monthly cost — input + output tokens combined.
Bill breakdown.
About GLM-5 Turbo.
GLM-5 Turbo is the lower-latency, lower-cost variant of GLM-5. Optimised for production traffic where you want GLM-5's instruction-following at a fraction of the price. API-only via z.ai.