Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo✓ Catalog verified
GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks. It natively handles image, video, and text inputs, excels at long-horizon planning, complex coding,...
Overview
GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks. It natively handles image, video, and text inputs, excels at long-horizon planning, complex coding,...
Access: available through the official Z Ai API. Context window: 203K.
Specifications
| API identifier | z-ai/glm-5v-turbo |
| Provider | Z Ai |
| Model type | Multimodal LLM |
| Context window | 203K catalog |
| Input modalities | image · text · video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Apr 1, 2026 |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text+image+video->text |
| Scheduled expiry | 2098-12-31 |
API defaults
{
"top_k": null,
"top_p": 0.95,
"temperature": 1,
"presence_penalty": null,
"frequency_penalty": null,
"repetition_penalty": null
}Pricing
Live pricing components for z-ai/glm-5v-turbo as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $0.0000012 | $1.20 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $0.000004 | $4.00 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$1.4Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | ✓ Supported | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | Not advertised | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5v-turbo",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo cost?
$1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens on the official Z Ai API.
What is the context window of Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo?
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo supports up to 203K tokens of context.
Does Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo support tool / function calling?
Yes, Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo?
Use the official Z Ai API with the model id `z-ai/glm-5v-turbo`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.