Model

GLM-5

OPEN

Zhipu AI / Z.ai (Tsinghua) · GLM-5 family · released Feb 11, 2026

Major-version flagship succeeding GLM-4.6; first Z.ai model released after Zhipu's Jan 2026 Hong Kong IPO; widely reported as trained entirely on domestic Huawei chips, no Nvidia used.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

2036.8

Elo · rank #85

Parameters

744B

Active params

40B (MoE)

Context

200K tokens

Architecture

Mixture-of-Experts, 744B total / 40B active, DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), 200K context, trained on a 100k-GPU Huawei Ascend 910B cluster (no Nvidia/AMD/Intel silicon)

License

MIT

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$1 / $3.2

Modalities

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Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

AIMEMath92.7%#34

best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%

Arena EloHuman preference1458#33

best: Claude Fable 5 · 1504

BrowseCompAgents62.0%#30

best: Kimi K3 · 91.2%

CyberGymCoding43.2%#17

best: MiMo-V2.6-Flash · 95.1%

GPQA DiamondReasoning86.0%#61

best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%

Humanity's Last ExamReasoning30.5%#57

best: Claude Opus 5.5 · 67.7%

IFBenchReasoning72.0%#29

best: MiniMax M3 · 83.0%

LiveCodeBenchCoding81.9%#43

best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%

MCP AtlasAgents67.8%#7

best: Step 5 Preview · 85.6%

SWE-bench VerifiedCoding72.8%#66

best: Claude Opus 5 · 97.0%

τ²-Bench TelecomAgents89.7%#21

best: Claude Opus 4.6 · 99.3%

Terminal-Bench 2.0Coding56.2%#56

best: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · 90.6%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

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VRAM @ FP16

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Fits on (Q4)

Multi-node cluster required

Throughput data unavailable.

Quantizations

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Fine-tune it

Permissive

QLoRA505.9 GB4× H200 141GB

LoRA1584.7 GBbeyond 8× B200

Full fine-tune11941.2 GBbeyond 8× B200

QLoRA SFT on ~10k samples ≈ $20.69 (4× H200 141GB)

Plan a fine-tune →

GLM-5 family

Elo progression across releases

GLM-5Feb 20262036.8 GLM-5.1Apr 20262199.4 GLM-5.2 (High)Jun 20261000.0 GLM-5.2 (Max)Jun 20262399.0 GLM-5.3Aug 20262796.9 GLM-5.3-FlashAug 20262771.9

Resources

HFzai-org/GLM-5 DOCShttps://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5 APIAvailable via Zhipu AI / Z.ai (Tsinghua) API

API price $1/$3.2 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)