Zhipu AIGLM 5 Turbo
GLM 5 Turbo is a Zhipu AI proprietary reasoning model, released 15 Mar 2026. Its best configuration ranks #230 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 55.5 ±7.4, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 368 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in instruction following (72) and lowest in reasoning (41). At $1.90 per million tokens blended it is pricier than most ranked models. Output speed of 23 tokens per second puts it in the slowest quarter, with a first token in 7.1 s. Last measured 15 Mar 2026.stale: no new result in six months
- Blended price
- $1.90/M
- $1.20 in · $4.00 out
- Output speed
- 23 tok/s
- OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 7.05 s
- Context
- 200k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 15 Mar 2026
- Overall index56
- Reasoning41
- Agents & tools63
- Knowledge54
- Instruction following72
- Long context61
- Composite59
How its index has moved
9 Sept 2026 to 23 Oct 2026The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Reasoning
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index | 84.8%#133 | Artificial Analysis |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index | 27.8%#173 | Artificial Analysis |
| CritPt | 0.3%#271 | Artificial Analysis |
Agents & tools
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 33.3%#92 | Artificial Analysis |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index | 98.5%#4 | Artificial Analysis |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AA-Omniscience | -16.4#226 | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index | 28.4%#196 | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index | 37.4%#176 | Artificial Analysis |
Instruction following
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 73.2%#43 | Artificial Analysis |
Long context
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AA-LCR | 71.7%#196 | Artificial Analysis |
Composite
| Benchmark | not stated | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 26.6#149 | Artificial Analysis |
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z.ai | 27 tok/s | 5.45 s | $1.20 | $4.00 | 203k | – |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.240 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0017 | $0.0014 | 20.4 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.017 | $0.0082 | 33.7 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.013 | $0.0089 | 1.2 min |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.088 | $0.045 | 3.1 min |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0032 | $0.0018 | 15.9 s |
See also
Questions people ask
- What are GLM 5 Turbo's benchmark scores?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, GLM 5 Turbo scores 55.5 ±7.4 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following (72) and weakest in reasoning (41). That rests on 6 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
- How does GLM 5 Turbo rank?
- GLM 5 Turbo is #230 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 368 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
- How much does GLM 5 Turbo cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, GLM 5 Turbo costs $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens, $1.90 blended (three input tokens per output token).
- When was GLM 5 Turbo released?
- Zhipu AI released GLM 5 Turbo on 15 Mar 2026.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “GLM 5 Turbo: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/glm-5-turbo.