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GLM-5.1

zhipu/glm-5-1
Language

GLM at 200K context.

Model overview

Context window

200K

tokens

Input price

R29.10

per 1M tokens

Output price

R91.30

per 1M tokens

Weekly volume

tokens / week

Open weights

No

API only

Capabilities

3

of 11 tags

Description

GLM-5.1 is a language model from Zhipu AI. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. Zhipu AI’s stated focus is open agentic GLM family. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.

Capabilities

Tool calling
Calls functions you define and returns their arguments as structured data, the basis of agents.
JSON mode
Constrains the response to valid JSON matching a schema you supply.
Streaming
Emits tokens as they are generated, so answers appear progressively rather than all at once.

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Balanced price and capability
  • Price quoted from the supplier's own rate card, not estimated

Weaknesses

  • 200K context, the smallest here
  • Not provisioned on this account yet — lead time applies

Pricing

Pricing for GLM-5.1, per 1M tokens
RatePriceUnit
InputR29.10per 1M tokens
OutputR91.30per 1M tokens

This model is not provisioned yet; the rate is quoted on request.

Context window

200Ktokens

covers prompt and response together, so a long input leaves less room for the answer.

200K tokens against a peer range of 32K to 10M, median 256K. Compared across 34 language models. Logarithmic scale.

Supported features

Feature support for GLM-5.1
FeatureSupport
Tool callingSupported
JSON modeSupported
StreamingSupported
Vision inputNot supported
Audio inputNot supported
Long contextNot supported
Open weightsNot supported
ReasoningNot supported
Fine-tunableNot supported
BatchNot supported
CachingNot supported

Example use cases

  • General assistants

  • Retrieval-augmented answering

  • Everyday production traffic

GLM-5.1 compared with GLM-5.2 and AC Flash 4.5
AttributeGLM-5.1GLM-5.2AC Flash 4.5
Context window200K1.005M
Input priceR29.10R29.10R10.00
Output priceR91.30R91.30R40.00
Tool callingSupportedSupportedSupported
JSON modeSupportedSupportedSupported
Vision inputNot supportedNot supportedNot supported
Open weightsNot supportedNot supportedNot supported
Prompt cachingNot supportedNot supportedNot supported

Best value in each row is highlighted. Blank cells are facts the supplier does not publish, not zeroes.

Provider information

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Zhipu AI · 智谱AI · Beijing, China · est. 2019

Born from Tsinghua University research, Zhipu's GLM family became the open ecosystem's agentic specialist: models tuned for tool use and multi-step work, released under permissive licences. Its free Air tier made capable open models accessible to every developer.

Recent releases

    Documentation

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    Input is billed at R29.10 per 1M tokens and output at R91.30 per 1M tokens. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.