GLM-5.
Zhipu's GLM 5 generation — closed flagship between GLM-4.7 and GLM-5.1.
1× AMD MI325.
Most-aggressive quantisation we have a working recommendation for. Lower precision = less VRAM = cheaper hardware, at a small accuracy cost.
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 | 43.0 | — | 11623 ms |
Smaller models distilled from GLM-5.
Lightweight student models trained to mimic GLM-5's outputs.
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 Turbo
Faster, cheaper sibling of GLM-5 on z.ai.
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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Is GLM-5 open-source or proprietary?
Cheapest hardware per quantisation.
Each row is one quantisation tier (the same weights compressed differently). Lower precision → lower VRAM → cheaper hardware, at the cost of small accuracy loss. $/hr refreshed hourly from each provider's API.
| Quantisation | Cheapest GPU config | Total VRAM | Live $/hr | tokens/sec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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FP16
FP16 — half precision (default)
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1024 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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FP8
FP8 — 8-bit float (Hopper / Blackwell)
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512 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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INT4
INT4 — 4-bit integer (~4× VRAM saving)
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256 GB | — | — | Compare → |
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for GLM-5 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.
GLM-5 is the headline release of Zhipu's GLM 5 generation, served via z.ai's first-party API. Closed weights; available through z.ai and the BigModel platform. The `glm-5` API slug and a faster `glm-5-turbo` variant are both addressable.