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GLM

Z.ai's flagship language model family

GLM is Z.AI's family of large language models, spanning named GLM generations and releases for text generation, reasoning, and agentic/coding use cases.

Pricing

Official site · Oct 29, 2026, 7:19 AM

Input / 1M

$1.40

Output / 1M

$4.40

Cached input / 1M

$0.26

GLM-5.3 pricing per 1M tokens: $1.40 input, $0.26 cached input, and $4.40 output. The pricing page lists other GLM versions at different rates.

The vendor pricing page lists versioned GLM models rather than a single product named exactly “GLM.” The latest listed GLM model is GLM-5.3; these rates are recorded as the closest current text-model pricing, not as a universal price for every GLM version.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking

Benchmarkable

Model level

family

Intelligence Index

27.9

GPQA

0.82

HLE

0.29

IFBench

0.72

LCR

0.76

TerminalBench Hard

0.43

TAU2

0.98

Recent stories

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newsPRIMARY2026-06-20

GLM 5.2 claims 1M-token local coding as builders compare it with Opus 4.8

Builders across X described GLM 5.2 as a surprisingly capable local coding model, citing MIT licensing, a 1M-token context window, and experiments on desktop or distributed GPU setups. The shift matters because it reopens local-first website and code workflows for vibe coders, though hardware cost and throughput still lag cloud subscriptions.