Z.ai: GLM 5
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling leading...
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Benchmarking Z.ai: GLM 5
OpenClaw Benchmarks
PinchBench measures how Z.ai: GLM 5 performs on real OpenClaw agent tasks: multi-step execution, tool use, recovery, latency, and cost.
Average score
#44 of 50 official models
Average time
29 runs · per OpenClaw task
Average cost
Per benchmark run
Category breakdown
Best verified PinchBench v2 run by OpenClaw task family.
Top task results
Highest-scoring benchmark tasks from the same submission.
Autonomous task execution
Z.ai: GLM 5 shows emerging average success across OpenClaw-style benchmark runs, useful for recurring research, browser, and file-based automations.
Tool use and recovery
PinchBench tasks stress multi-step planning, tool calls, and judge-verified completion rather than single prompt coding snippets.
Agent workflow fit
Its deliberate average runtime and premium run cost help set expectations for long-running KiloClaw agents and production workflows.
Agentic benchmarks from the PinchBench Leaderboard
Real-World Usage
Real-world usage statistics from the Kilo Code community
Weekly Token Usage
Mode Rankings (Last Week)
Where this model ranks for each built-in mode
Code
Write, modify, and refactor code
Ask
Get answers and explanations
Debug
Diagnose and fix software issues
Orchestrator
Coordinate tasks across multiple modes
Real-world metrics from the Kilo Code Leaderboard
Pricing
Cost per 1 million tokens
Example Cost
Analyzing a 10,000 line codebase (≈40k input tokens, 10k output tokens) costs approximately $0.0720
Coding Capabilities
Features and parameters relevant to coding tasks
Coding Features
Pricing details from OpenRouter
Technical Details
Architecture and implementation specifications
- Model ID
- z-ai/glm-5
- Created
- February 11, 2026
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Input Modalities
- text
- Context Window
- 202,752 tokens
- Max Completion Tokens
- 16,384 tokens
- Input Price
- $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Output Price
- $3.20 per 1M tokens
- Cache Read Price
- $0.20 per 1M tokens
- Content Moderation
- Disabled
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