GLM-5

GLM-5

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About

GLM-5 is Z.ai’s latest large language model built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. It scales significantly beyond GLM-4.5, increasing total parameters and training data while integrating DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce deployment costs without sacrificing long-context capacity. The model combines enhanced pre-training with a new asynchronous reinforcement learning infrastructure called slime, improving training efficiency and post-training refinement. GLM-5 achieves best-in-class performance among open-source models across reasoning, coding, and agent benchmarks, narrowing the gap with leading frontier models. It ranks highly on evaluations such as Vending Bench 2, demonstrating strong long-term planning and operational capabilities. The model is open-sourced under the MIT License.

About

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (previously previewed as Ox Alpha), designed to deliver strong coding, agentic, visual, and knowledge-work performance at relatively low inference cost. It uses 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active parameters, along with a hybrid architecture that combines sparse and linear attention to reduce the cost of long-context processing. The model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. GLM-5.3-Flash can reason across text, images, documents, interfaces, dashboards, and other visual information while using that feedback to refine its own outputs. Z.ai reports substantial gains over GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic benchmarks, including DeepSWE and AutomationBench, while approaching higher-cost frontier models on several evaluations.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

AI researchers, developers, and engineering teams seeking an open-source, high-performance foundation model for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic applications

Audience

Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, researchers, and organizations that need cost-efficient multimodal reasoning, long-context processing, advanced coding, visual analysis, and autonomous workflow capabilities

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • What makes it exciting is that it seems built for the exact workloads developers care about right now: long-horizon coding, complex reasoning, big-context analysis, and agentic workflows. A million-token context window is especially useful if you want to drop in a large repo, long spec, research corpus, or messy project history and have the model reason across it.

Cons

  • I would treat it as something exciting to test, not something to blindly trust with sensitive work. Even the independent Ox Alpha site warns that messages are processed by the upstream model API, so I would keep secrets, private code, and customer data out of it until there is a clearer owner, model card, privacy policy, and production story.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2023
China
z.ai/

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2019
China
z.ai

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
GLM Coding Plan
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
APIFree
Claw Code
DeepSeek Harness
Dessix
Hermes Agent
Ollama
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
Pi Agent
Qoder
Roo Code
Sup AI
Tabbit Browser
Z.ai
omp

Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
GLM Coding Plan
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
APIFree
Claw Code
DeepSeek Harness
Dessix
Hermes Agent
Ollama
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
Pi Agent
Qoder
Roo Code
Sup AI
Tabbit Browser
Z.ai
omp
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