GLM 5

by Z.ai

Released 23 days after GLM 4.7 Flash · All Z.ai releases

GLM-5 is Zhipu's fifth-generation frontier foundation model released February 2026, with 744 billion total parameters and 40 billion active in a Mixture-of-Experts configuration. Zhipu reports it was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips using the MindSpore framework, without NVIDIA hardware, a notable step toward large-model training independent of US semiconductor supply chains. The model reports open-source state-of-the-art results in coding and agentic tasks, with real-world programming capability that Zhipu benchmarks directly against Claude Opus 4.5. Trained on 28.5 trillion tokens, it integrates DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce deployment cost while preserving long-context capacity, with a 200K context window. Its reasoning-first design emphasizes thought quality and multi-step problem decomposition, making it strong for software engineering, mathematics, and frontier reasoning. Released under an MIT license, GLM-5 targets developers building state-of-the-art coding agents, research systems, and reasoning-intensive applications. Its roughly two-fold scale increase over GLM-4.5 combined with sparse activation aims to deliver capability gains while keeping inference practical.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
203K
Max output
203K
Input price
$0.60 /1M
Output price
$2.08 /1M
Released
  • onchain settlement available
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

GLM 5 runs on 5 different routes through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$0.60$2.08
USNot by defaultNo$1.00$3.20
USZero data retentionNo$0.60$1.60
USZero data retentionNo$1.00$3.20
EUZero data retentionNo$1.00$3.20

Uptime and availability

GLM 5 runs on 2 independently monitored routes through the qynio gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.

100%effective uptime, last 30 days
Averaged across these routes on their own, a single provider reached 100% over the same window.
Daily status through the gateway, which serves each request from whichever route is healthy.
2 monitored providers serve GLM 5.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. 3 further routes for this model are not on the board yet and are not counted above. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting GLM 5 has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

DeepInfra United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; unknown; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

DigitalOcean United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is not on by default — a moderation hold applies. No training on customer data. US; dpf sccs; deposit available.

Zero data retention
Not by default — a moderation hold applies. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Holds content for review
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
dpf sccs

Geodd United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
No hold on content
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Novita United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

TensorX European Union🇪🇺

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. EU; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index40.6
Reasoning & knowledge
GPQA Diamond
82%
Humanity's Last Exam
29%
Long-context reasoning
71%
Coding
SciCode
46%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
43%
τ²-Bench Telecom
98%
Math & instruction following
IFBench
72%

Get started

Call GLM 5 through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "deepinfra/zai-org/GLM-5",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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