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GLM 5 Turbo

Z.ai · released Mar 15, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured output

GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai designed for fast inference and strong performance in agent-driven environments such as OpenClaw scenarios. It is deeply optimized for real-world agent workflows...

Specification

Context window
203K
Max output
131K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

39.1

87th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

18 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

5.19s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.38

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    98.5%
  • GPQA Diamond
    84.7%
  • IFBench
    73.2%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    66.7%
  • SciCode
    43.6%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    33.3%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    27.8%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)98.5%
GPQA Diamond84.7%
IFBench73.2%
AA-LCR (long context)66.7%
SciCode43.6%
Terminal-Bench Hard33.3%
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
GPT-5.4 Nano39.7
Qwen3.7 Plus39.4
GLM 5 Turbo39.1
M2.738.9
Claude Opus 4.638.8
MiMo-V2.538.0
Grok 4.2038.0
Grok 4.337.9

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence87th
Terminal work77th
Arena Elo86th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$1.2
Output / 1M tokens
$4
Cached input / 1M
$0.24
Blended 3:1
$1.9

One task, estimated

$0.38

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,305
Win rate
58.2%
Strongest at
3D scenes
Tournaments
4,053

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,250–1,325 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
3D scenes130558.2%
UI components129857.2%
Game development129757.4%
Websites129355.5%
Data visualisation129057.3%
SVG125457.0%