GLM-5-Turbo Pricing
Zhipu AI · Faster variant of GLM-5.1 at a slightly lower price. Good for interactive applic
Save up to 70% on GLM-5-Turbo API cost
Same model, same quality — pay less per token than the official API. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card required.
Other Zhipu AI Models
GLM-5.1GLM-4.5-AirGLM-4.7 FlashGLM-5-Turbo Pricing Context
Pricing position within Zhipu AI
GLM-5-Turbo sits in the middle of Zhipu AI's pricing at $0.70/1M input — 69% above the lineup average ($0.00 cheapest, $0.85 most expensive). 2 siblings cost less, 1 cost more. This mid-tier positioning makes it a sensible default when you're unsure which variant to pick.
When GLM-5-Turbo is worth the cost
GLM-5-Turbo is used for general-purpose text tasks — chat, summarization, drafting, classification, and extraction. Function calling extends it to agent-style workflows where it invokes external APIs. For specialized workloads (coding, reasoning, vision), a purpose-tuned sibling may perform better.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes GLM-5-Turbo different from sibling models: compared to GLM-5.1 ($0.15/1M more expensive, same 128K context); GLM-4.5-Air ($0.59/1M cheaper, same 128K context); GLM-4.7 Flash ($0.70/1M cheaper, same 128K context). Choose GLM-5-Turbo when a balanced cost-to-capability ratio fits your workload.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: customer support chatbots, content drafting and summarization, classification pipelines, and extraction workflows. GLM-5-Turbo handles the standard text-in/text-out case reliably — route specialized tasks (vision, coding, reasoning) to purpose-tuned siblings.