GLM-5-Turbo — pricing and what it's actually good for

GLM-5-Turbo from z.ai. GLM weights are open, so third-party hosts often undercut z.ai's own first-party API — the spread is real buying information and is worth publishing alongside this rate, attributed. z.ai lists cached input storage as limited-time free.

Released: 15 Mar 2026
API identifier: glm-5-turbo

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$1.20

Output$4.00

Cached input$0.24

Cached input is 5× cheaper on this model — it pays off when you send the same context again and again.

Checked against z.ai pricing docs on 7 Aug 2026, 11:51 UTC

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Sources: z.ai pricing docs · z.ai GLM-5 guide

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