GLM 5 pricing: real cost per million tokens
What Zhipu's GLM 5 really costs across 1 plan from 1 provider: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.
Data updated · How real prices are computed
As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use GLM 5 is Command Code GOAT at a real cost of about $0.1175 per million tokens ($10/month for roughly 0.085B tokens a month). We track 1 plan and API channels that serve GLM 5.
- Lowest real price
- $0.1175/MTokCommand Code GOAT
- API list price
- —
- Most monthly tokens
- 0.085BCommand Code GOAT
- Plans & APIs
- 11 subscription · 0 metered APIs
Plot GLM 5 on the price–capability chart →
GLM 5 plans and real prices
Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.
| Plan | Provider | Billing | Monthly fee | Monthly tokens | Real $/MTok | vs API | Confidence | Data date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command Code GOAT | Command Code | Subscription | $10/mo | 0.085B | $0.1175 | — | Medium | Evidence ↓ |
Behind each number
For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.
Command Code GOATCommand Code$0.117509/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-30 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $0.117509
- Monthly tokens
- 85,100,000 (0.085B)
- Quota confidence
- Medium
- Calculation
- $10 / month ÷ 85,100,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.117509 / MTok
- Quota basis
Standard workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% input / 0.5% output
- Benchmark mapping
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3: Medium (2 configurations)
Code Arena | WebDev Overall: Low (1 configuration)Mapping confidence: how directly each score refers to the model served here.
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goat official per-model allowance and three-part pricing; https://commandcode.ai/pricing; $10->$70 credits; code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.json; goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.json
Added 85.1M: min(shared monthly pool $70, model allowance $20) ÷ project standard-workload weighted price; official three-part price; Older models all $20; goat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.json. Processing fee ignored; allowances of different models in the same plan are not additive; no usage-panel token+% screenshot — computed from official absolute credits and the price list
https://commandcode.ai/docs/plans/goathttps://commandcode.ai/pricing;code-subscriptions-round1-2026-09-06.jsongoat-opencode-catalogs-round3-2026-09-30.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
GLM 5 benchmark scores
Highest archived configuration per leaderboard; ranks are among all models each board archives in this dataset. Scores are never mixed across boards.
| Leaderboard | Metric | Score | Rank | Configuration | Effort | Harness | Configs | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | Intelligence Index | 27.91 estimate | #42 / 60 | GLM-5 | — | — | 2 | 2026-10-01 |
| Code Arena | WebDev Overall | Arena Score | 1,434 | #49 / 54 | glm-5 | — | — | 1 | 2026-09-30 |
Every archived configuration
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 2 configurations
| Configuration | Score | Score interval | Harness / effort / mode | Source task cost (mean / median) | Checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5 [AA estimate]GLM-5Marked intelligenceIndexIsEstimated=true in AA embedded payload; retained as estimate, not treated as fully measured. | 27.9112 AA estimate | — | — / — / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
| GLM-5 (non-reasoning) [AA estimate]GLM-5 (non-reasoning)Marked intelligenceIndexIsEstimated=true in AA embedded payload; retained as estimate, not treated as fully measured. | 21.7826 AA estimate | — | — / — / — | — / — | 2026-10-01 | Source · Archive |
Code Arena | WebDev Overall 1 configuration
These are reference mappings, not benchmarks of a subscription or API channel. Harness and quota-measurement effort alignment are unverified. Source task costs are not subscription task costs.
- Exact served-model reference; quota-measurement effort is unverified.
- Exact served-model reference only; product harness and quota-measurement effort are unverified. Not a benchmark measurement of this subscription or API channel.
Frequently asked questions
How much does GLM 5 really cost per million tokens?
Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, GLM 5 ranges from $0.1175 (Command Code GOAT) to $0.1175 (Command Code GOAT) per million tokens.
Which subscription gives the most GLM 5 usage?
Command Code GOAT allows roughly 0.085B tokens of GLM 5 per month for $10.
How does GLM 5 score on independent leaderboards?
GLM 5 has scores on 2 leaderboards; its strongest placement is 27.91 (Intelligence Index) on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, #42 of 60 models tracked.
Who makes GLM 5, and where can I use it?
GLM 5 (model ID glm-5) is made by Zhipu and is available through Command Code.
More Zhipu models
| Model | Lowest real $/MTok | Cheapest plan | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash | $0.00293 | GLM Coding Pro (v2 ¥149) Off-peak | 23 |
| GLM 5.3 | $0.00889 | GLM Coding Pro (v2 ¥149) Off-peak | 23 |
| GLM 5.2 | $0.02771 | Droid Max | 5 |
| GLM 5.2 Fast | $0.04157 | Droid Max | 2 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashX | $0.04413 | Command Code GOAT | 1 |
| GLM 5.1 | $0.07833 | Ollama Max | 3 |