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Z.ai: GLM 5.1

z-ai/glm-5.1

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GLM-5.1 delivers a major leap in coding capability, with particularly significant gains in handling long-horizon tasks. Unlike previous models built around minute-level interactions, GLM-5.1 can work independently and continuously on a single task for more than 8 hours, autonomously planning, executing, and improving itself throughout the process, ultimately delivering complete, engineering-grade results.

Modalities

In / Out Price

36% off

$0.896 / $2.816per 1M

Context

205K

Released

Apr 7, 2026

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About Z.ai: GLM 5.1

OpenRouter makes Z.ai: GLM 5.1 available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID z-ai/glm-5.1. Requests can be routed across 17 providers, including Baidu Qianfan, GMICloud, StreamLake, DigitalOcean, Chutes, DeepInfra, SiliconFlow, Crusoe and 9 more, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Z.ai: GLM 5.1 accepts text and returns text. It has a 204,800-token context window and a maximum output of 131,072 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Z.ai: GLM 5.1 costs $0.896/M input tokens and $2.816/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.1664/M tokens. Effective pricing can be lower when prompt caching applies. It was released on April 7, 2026.

More models from Z.ai

  • GLM 5.3
  • GLM 5.2
  • GLM 5V Turbo

Frequently asked questions

GLM-5.1 delivers a major leap in coding capability, with particularly significant gains in handling long-horizon tasks. Unlike previous models built around minute-level interactions, GLM-5.1 can work independently and continuously on a single task for more than 8 hours, autonomously planning, executing, and improving itself throughout the process, ultimately delivering complete,...

GLM 5.1 costs $0.896/M input tokens and $2.816/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.1664/M tokens.

GLM 5.1 has a 204,800 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.

Yes. GLM 5.1 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

GLM 5.1 is served by 17 providers on OpenRouter: Baidu Qianfan, GMICloud, StreamLake, DigitalOcean, Chutes, DeepInfra, SiliconFlow, Crusoe and 9 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

GLM 5.1 was released on April 7, 2026.

36% off
$1.40$0.896$4.40$2.816$0.26$0.16641.19s57 tps
99.79%
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$1.40$0.91$4.40$2.86$0.26$0.1691.73s57 tps
99.25%
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$1.40$0.966$4.40$3.036$0.26$0.17942.30s26 tps
99.15%
$0.975$4.30$0.261.73s14 tps
92.80%
$1.05$3.50$0.2051.86s17 tps
99.15%
$1.19$3.74$0.602.31s37 tps
99.86%
$1.20$4.40$0.250.65s84 tps
99.55%
$1.26$3.96$0.2341.59s51 tps
99.66%
$1.33$4.18$0.2471.84s51 tps
99.84%
$1.38$4.40$0.262.18s53 tps
99.84%
$1.40$4.40--0.68s33 tps
96.41%
$1.40$4.40$0.268.16s19 tps
98.43%
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99.65%
$1.40$4.40$0.260.25s59 tps
99.94%
$1.54$4.84$0.2861.35s20 tps
97.40%
$0.98$3.08$0.0982.34s34 tps
94.00%
$1.21$4.20$0.602.21s31 tps
93.29%

Throughput

84tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.25s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
Parasail
83.7%76.7%
SiliconFlow
82.4%76.9%
GMICloud
79.1%--
auto-routing
82.4%75.5%
AtlasCloud
80.3%77.2%
+15 more providers
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.09%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.09%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.36%
Without Routing
94.11%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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