Z.ai: GLM-5V-Turbo
GLM-5V-Turbo is a reasoning model from Z.ai released on Apr 1, 2026. It reads text, images, files and video and writes text, with a 200K token context window and up to 131K tokens per reply.
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It costs $5 per million input tokens and $22 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $1.20, 76% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching.
16 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, AIHubMix and 302.AI. The lowest input price is $0.7042 per million tokens at AIHubMix.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $5 / $22 per 1M
- Context
- 200K
- Max output
- 131K
- Released
- Apr 1, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
GLM-5V-Turbo pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $5 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $22 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $1.20 / 1M tokens | 76% off input |
| Cache write | $0 / 1M tokens |
GLM-5V-Turbo providers
16 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, AIHubMix and 302.AI. The lowest input price is $0.7042 per million tokens at AIHubMix. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhipu AI First party | $5 | $22 | $1.20 | 200K | 131K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 200K | 128K |
| AIHubMix | $0.7042 | $3.10 | $0.169 | 200K | 128K |
| 302.AI | $0.72 | $3.20 | – | 200K | 131K |
| ZenMux | $0.726 | $3.19 | $0.1743 | 200K | 128K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 200K | 131K |
| Eden AI | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 203K | 131K |
| Kilo Gateway | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 203K | 131K |
| LLM Gateway | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 200K | 128K |
| NanoGPT | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 203K | 131K |
| Ofox | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 200K | 131K |
| Tempr Gateway | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 200K | 131K |
Showing 12 of 16 providers: the lab first, then the major clouds, then the cheapest resellers.
What GLM-5V-Turbo costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call GLM-5V-Turbo through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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GLM-5V-Turbo questions
How much does the GLM-5V-Turbo API cost?
$5 per million input tokens and $22 per million output tokens, with cached input at $1.20. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of GLM-5V-Turbo?
200,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 131,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve GLM-5V-Turbo?
16 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, AIHubMix and 302.AI. The lowest input price is $0.7042 per million tokens at AIHubMix. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does GLM-5V-Turbo support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is GLM-5V-Turbo open source?
No. Z.ai serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was GLM-5V-Turbo released?
Apr 1, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on GLM-5V-Turbo?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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