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GLM-5.1

by Z.AI

Current mid tier open weights mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$1.40

per 1M tokens

Output

$4.40

per 1M tokens

Blended

$2.15

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.260

19% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Z.AI pricing · read Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09
GLM 5.1 is available on 2 hosts. See the full cheapest-first comparison on the consolidated GLM 5.1 page →

Overview

GLM-5.1 model. $1.40/$4.40 per 1M; cached input $0.26.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 64.2th4 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 29.9
GPQA Diamond vendor
65%
SWE-Bench Verified vendor
42%
Humanity's Last Exam vendor
25%
ARC-AGI 2 vendor
28%
AIME 2025 vendor
68%
MMMLU vendor
78%
BFCL vendor
68%
HumanEval vendor
82%
MATH 500 vendor
74%

Every per-benchmark score we hold for this model is reported by its own vendor, so none is counted toward an accuracy average or any ranking. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 41 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 30.6 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 0.8 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1467.8 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #30 of 150 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 4 independent measurements
  • Ranks #84 of 150 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

160 tokens/sec output

Source: Z.AI model card · updated Mar 1, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Z.AI
Context window
128K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Oct 1, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
open-weightsmid-tiercaching

Availability verified: Aug 1, 2026 — listed on Z.AI's own page