Question 1

What is GLM 5V Turbo?

Accepted Answer

GLM 5V Turbo is a model from Z.ai, released on Apr 1, 2026. GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks. It natively handles image, video, and text inputs, excels at long-horizon planning, complex coding, and task execution, and works seamlessly with agents to complete the full loop of “perceive → plan → execute“.

Question 2

How much does GLM 5V Turbo cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $1.08 per 1M tokens on Novita, and output starts at $3.60 per 1M tokens on Novita, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 3 providers, it costs $1.16 per 1M input tokens and $3.87 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve GLM 5V Turbo on Respan?

Accepted Answer

3 providers serve GLM 5V Turbo: Novita, OpenRouter, and Z.ai.

Question 4

What is GLM 5V Turbo's context window?

Accepted Answer

GLM 5V Turbo accepts up to 205K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use GLM 5V Turbo with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "zai/glm-5v-turbo". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is GLM 5V Turbo?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was Z.ai at 22 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 2.7 seconds on Novita. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Question 7

How does GLM 5V Turbo score on benchmarks?

Accepted Answer

GLM 5V Turbo has 18 published benchmark scores, including Design2Code 94.8%, WebVoyager 88.5%, and V* 89%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
NovitaSave 10%`novita/zai-org/glm-5v-turbo`	205K	$1.08/M	$3.60/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/z-ai/glm-5v-turbo`	203K	$1.20/M	$4.00/M
Z.ai`zai/glm-5v-turbo`	200K	$1.20/M	$4.00/M

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