🇨🇳 China🧠 GeneralistReleased September 2025
GLM-5
Zhipu AI
Open-sourceFreeSelf-host
Verdict
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
GLM-5 (Zhipu AI) is one of the Chinese open-source leaders. Particularly good at autonomous agent roles (tool use, function calling). Apache 2 license enables commercial use and self-hosting.
Skill profile
Arena Elo1457
Verified benchmarks
GPQA63%
SWE-Bench40%
MATH85%
MMLU84.5%
HumanEval86%
What do these scores mean?
GPQA63%solid
PhD-level science questions (physics, chemistry, biology), with no tool access.
SWE-Bench40%fair
Resolving real GitHub issues under real conditions (SWE-bench Verified).
MATH85%excellent
Competition-level math problems.
MMLU84.5%excellent
General knowledge across dozens of academic subjects.
HumanEval86%excellent
Python code generation from specifications.
Strengths
- World-class on Arena
- Has a free tier
- Open-source and self-hostable
- Competitive input pricing
Limitations
- No native GDPR guarantee
Who is it for
A good fit if…
- you want to control cost or self-host
Skip it if…
- you handle sensitive EU data
Ideal use cases
- Autonomous agents
- Self-host
- Asian multilingual
- Coding
Access & availability
Paid API per tokenFree tier availableSelf-hostable (open weights)
Key specifications
Context
128K
Input price
$0.50 $/M
Output price
$2.00 $/M
Speed
70 tok/s
Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited
Estimate your monthly cost
Per-token API pricing$29/ month with GLM-5
For the same usage
- Gemini 3 Flash$36+24%
- Gemini 3.1 Pro$145+397%
- GPT-5.5$363+1142%
Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.
Privacy
Not GDPR-compliantHosting : CN/selfAnonymizable data
Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
Advanced data · for experts
Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
MoE
Size
300B (32B actifs MoE)
Cutoff date
Mar 2025
Inputs
text, image
Outputs
text, code
License
apache-2
Hosting
CN/self
Hallucination score
3/5
Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0035
1M in + 1M out
≈ $2.50
All benchmarks
| Arena Elo | 1457 |
| MMLU | 84.5% |
| GPQA | 63.0% |
| HumanEval | 86.0% |
| SWE-Bench | 40.0% |
| MATH | 85.0% |