LLM Reference

GLM-5 Turbo

Released
2026-03-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 78d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

GLM-5 Turbo is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
  • Workloads that can use a 200k context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Family
GLM-5
Released
2026-03-01
Context
200k
Parameters
744B total, 40B active
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff
2025-11
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Created by

Chinese AI research lab developing GLM language models.

Beijing, China
Founded 2019
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$4.00
Input / 1M
$1.20

Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter

About

Purpose-built variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent orchestration and complex automated workflows. Features native agent-friendly training emphasizing tool use, command following, and persistent task execution. Designed for OpenClaw (Lobster Agent) workflows with ~0.67% tool-call error rate. Achieves 20% higher inference performance vs base GLM-5.

GLM-5 Turbo is an open-source model in the GLM-5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 200k-token context window, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1.2 input and $4 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GLM-5 Turbo yet.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
OpenRouter$1.20$4.00-
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$1.20$4.00read $0.240
Serverless

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of GLM-5 Turbo?

GLM-5 Turbo has a context window of 200k tokens.

How much does GLM-5 Turbo cost?

GLM-5 Turbo is available at $1.2/1M input tokens through OpenRouter.

When was GLM-5 Turbo released?

GLM-5 Turbo was released on 2026-03-01.

Which providers offer GLM-5 Turbo?

GLM-5 Turbo is available from 2 providers: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway.