API PRICES
Z.ai · GLM-5
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Z.ai · GLM-5 official price: input 4, output 18 CNY per million tokens (智谱, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: Novita AI, input 1, output 3.2 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: api.renice.cc, group "openllm" 0.4 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 77 sites have comparable prices; 175 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 7.5 · median 8.75 · highest 10 · 2 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.55 · median 1.55 · highest 1.55 · 2 quotes USD / per million tokens
USD_CREDIT · Lowest 0.4 · median 7.5 · highest 420 · 90 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
CNY_CREDIT · Lowest 2.25 · median 7.5 · highest 62.3377605 · 25 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 智谱 | 4 | 18 | 1 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source | |
| 智谱 | 6 | 22 | 1.5 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source |
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | 1 | 3.2 | 0.2 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 1 | 3.2 | 0.2 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
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Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
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| 48 | ai.ufoai.onlineAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | Chinese models [machine translation]Group on site: 国产模型 Name on site: glm-5 deepseek, glm, kimi, MiniMax, 40% cheaper than official [machine translation]Original: deepseek、glm、kimi、MiniMax，比官方便宜40% Operator pending verification | 4.8 | 21.6 | 1.2 | 9Median price ÷ this price: 0.833333333333333333333333333333333333× | Full prices and sources |
| 52 | cn.meai.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 52 | api.meai.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 52 | ai.saigou.workAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | GLM Name on site: kiro-glm-5 Operator pending verification | 5 | 30 | 0.5 | 11.25Median price ÷ this price: 0.666666666666666666666666666666666667× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | code0.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | Zhipu [machine translation]Group on site: 智谱 Name on site: glm-5 Original-vendor direct connection [machine translation]Original: 原厂直连 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | — | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | poloai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new Name on site: glm-5 glm newly launched models [machine translation]Original: glm最新上线模型 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | poloai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new-cc Name on site: glm-5 glm newest models, claudecode only [machine translation]Original: glm最新模型，claudecode专用 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | poloapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new Name on site: glm-5 glm newly launched models [machine translation]Original: glm最新上线模型 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | poloapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new-cc Name on site: glm-5 glm newest models, claudecode only [machine translation]Original: glm最新模型，claudecode专用 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new Name on site: glm-5 glm newly launched models [machine translation]Original: glm最新上线模型 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new-cc Name on site: glm-5 glm newest models, claudecode only [machine translation]Original: glm最新模型，claudecode专用 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22 | 1.2 | 10Median price ÷ this price: 0.749999999999962500000000001875× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | ai.comfly.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: Pro/zai-org/GLM-5 ⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | api.bltcy.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | ai.t8star.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | api.bltcy.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | api.ifopen.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: Pro/zai-org/GLM-5 ⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | api2.aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: Pro/zai-org/GLM-5 ⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 55 | one-api.bltcy.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 6 | 22.02 | — | 10.005Median price ÷ this price: 0.749625187406296851574212893553223388× | Full prices and sources |
| 70 | ai-one.vipAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | China Name on site: glm-5 Chinese models mixed group [machine translation]Original: 国产模型混合分组 Operator pending verification | 7.2 | 32.4 | 0.72 | 13.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.555555555555555555555555555555555556× | Full prices and sources |
| 70 | kuaipao.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | China Name on site: glm-5 Chinese models mixed group [machine translation]Original: 国产模型混合分组 Operator pending verification | 7.2 | 32.4 | 0.72 | 13.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.555555555555555555555555555555555556× | Full prices and sources |
| 72 | ai.ufoai.onlineAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | default Name on site: glm-5 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 9.6 | 43.2 | 2.4 | 18Median price ÷ this price: 0.416666666666666666666666666666666667× | Full prices and sources |
| 73 | cn.zhihuiai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm Name on site: glm-5 glm official original-vendor resources [machine translation]Original: glm官方原厂资源 Operator pending verification | 10.8 | 39.6 | 2.16 | 18Median price ÷ this price: 0.416666666666645833333333334375× | Full prices and sources |
| 73 | cc.zhihuiapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm Name on site: glm-5 glm official original-vendor resources [machine translation]Original: glm官方原厂资源 Operator pending verification | 10.8 | 39.6 | 2.16 | 18Median price ÷ this price: 0.416666666666645833333333334375× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | poloai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 Name on site: glm-5 ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Operator pending verification | 12 | 44 | 2.4 | 20Median price ÷ this price: 0.3749999999999812500000000009375× | Full prices and sources |
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 388 recorded prices; 131 can be compared directly. Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 148, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 53, ratio looks unset 22, display unit not confirmed 13, billed per request or another unit 11, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8
99 recent · 3 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for Z.ai · GLM-5?
api.renice.cc, group "openllm", 0.4 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 77 sites have comparable prices.
What is the official price for Z.ai · GLM-5?
Input 4, output 18 CNY per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: Novita AI, input 1, output 3.2 USD per million tokens.
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