Using GLM-5 on OpenRouter

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call z-ai/glm-5 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.60/1M input, $2.08/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About OpenRouter

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Pricing on OpenRouter

Capabilities

About GLM-5

Flagship open-weight foundation model from Zhipu AI with 744B parameters (40B active per token) in Mixture of Experts architecture. Trained on 28.5T tokens using DeepSeek Sparse Attention on Huawei Ascend hardware. Achieves state-of-the-art performance on coding and agentic benchmarks (SWE-bench Verified: 77.8%). Supports autonomous planning, multi-step tool use, and self-correction.