GLM-5
Zhipu, a Chinese AI lab, released GLM-5, a free-to-download model for programmers and people building AI agents that carry out multi-step tasks.
This came out before trckr began following OpenRouter, so it was added on Nov 6 without an alert. Its release date comes from OpenRouter.
Key facts
- Released
- Feb 11, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
Developers can use it now through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet..
Download
Free to download and run on your own computer: it has Open weights: The model's files are public, so anyone can download it, run it on their own computer and build on it, usually for free. trckr labels these "Open"..
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $1.00
- per million tokensCached: $0.20
- Output
- $3.20
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 205K tokens
- about 150,000 words
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Chat answers, by people's votes#54 of 86
- Gemini 4 Carbon1,527
- 2Gemini 4 Argon1,522
- 53Qwen3.6-Max-Preview1,460
- 54GLM-51,457
- 55Dola Seed 2.0 Pro1,457
Source: LMArena · LMArena text, adjusted for style
Compare GLM-5 with
It came out 23 days after GLM 4.7 Flash, the lab's previous model.
The details
Z.ai's new Flagship: A lab's best and usually most expensive model, the one it leads with. Open source: Strictly, the model's files, code and training recipe are all public and free to reuse. Often used loosely to mean "free to download". model, built for complex systems design, long-running Agent: An AI that doesn't just answer but takes steps on its own to finish a task: searching the web, running code or using apps. workflows and large-scale programming, aimed at expert developers.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
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