GLM 5
Open-weights chat model from Z.AI. One API key reaches all 8 providers, with automatic failover.
No card required. Start with 1 million free tokens.
About GLM 5
GLM 5 is an open-weights chat model published by Z.AI, with a 202,752-token context window. It scores 106 on AI IQ, ranked #94. Through TrustedRouter it runs on 8 providers, with options in the US and EU, from $0.99 per million input tokens. Two providers offer zero data retention.
- Model ID
z-ai/glm-5- Publisher
- Z.AI
- Modes
- chat
- Billing
- Credits or your own provider key
Set it up with your agent
Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent.
Use GLM 5 through TrustedRouter in this project.
1. Read https://trustedrouter.com/llms.txt
2. Point the OpenAI-compatible client at
https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1 and read the key from
TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY.
3. Set the model to z-ai/glm-5.
4. Run the tests, then show me the diff before committing.import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1",
api_key=os.environ["TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)curl https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/glm-5",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}]
}'Providers
Your key goes to the cheapest healthy provider and fails over on its own. Open a row for retention, location and weight format, or see how we check privacy claims and the live speed leaderboard.
| Provider | Input | Cached | Output | Cost per 1M in + out | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SiliconFlow
Cheapest
|
$1.00 | $0.211 | $2.69 | $3.69 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. No provider-ZDR claim is tracked here. SiliconFlow's privacy policy source is linked for retention and interaction-data terms. Location Operator country: SG Headquarters / registered office: Singapore (international API operator). Company location source (reviewed 2026-09-27). Inference: Inference countries unconfirmed; no verified country-specific residency commitment. TrustedRouter uses api.siliconflow.com. Neither its hostname nor the provider's Singapore legal jurisdiction establishes the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash GPU location. No exhaustive route-specific country list verified. Region pinning through TR: Not supported by the current TrustedRouter integration. Reviewed 2026-09-26. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.00225/1M · Cached input $0.211/1M · Output $2.69025/1M TTFT: insufficient data Speed: insufficient data |
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IO Intelligence
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$0.992 | $0.496 | $3.17 | $4.17 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. In its September 28, 2026 marketplace submission, io.net states that inference prompts and completions are processed only in memory, are not stored or logged, and are not used for training. Content-free operational metadata is retained for billing, capacity planning and abuse prevention. This is a provider declaration: the reviewed public privacy policy does not establish inference-specific zero-retention terms, and the applicable DPA has not been reviewed. Routes remain Standard pending that evidence. Confidential compute is offered on request, but this integration has no verified confidential-compute or provider-side E2EE guarantee. Location Operator country: US Headquarters / registered office: West Hollywood, California, United States (operating address). Company location source (reviewed 2026-09-28). Inference: United States and Canada, provider-declared; no US-only or fixed-country guarantee on this route. io.net declares US and Canadian serving locations and data residency in its September 28, 2026 marketplace submission. This is provider-wide information, not an independently verified per-model or per-request location. Region pinning through TR: Not supported by the current TrustedRouter integration. Reviewed 2026-09-28. API documentation (not a location guarantee) Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $0.9917/1M · Cached input $0.49585/1M · Output $3.17344/1M TTFT: 1.75 s Speed: insufficient data Last sample: |
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Atlas Cloud
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$1.00 | $0.200 | $3.32 | $4.33 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. Atlas Cloud publishes a platform zero-retention policy, while its aggregated model routes can involve downstream providers. TrustedRouter keeps the public route tier conservative pending downstream-path contractual verification. Location Operator country: US Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.00225/1M · Cached input $0.20045/1M · Output $3.32325/1M TTFT: insufficient data Speed: insufficient data |
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Featherless AI
Zero retention
|
$1.00 | — | $3.32 | $4.33 | |
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Retention Zero data retention. Featherless's published privacy policy states that prompts and completions are neither collected nor stored. Account, payment and usage metadata, including token counts and sampler settings, may be retained. This is policy-backed ZDR, not verified confidential compute or E2EE. Location Operator country: US Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.00225/1M · Cached input Not published · Output $3.32325/1M TTFT: insufficient data Speed: insufficient data |
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GMI Cloud
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$1.06 | $0.211 | $3.38 | $4.43 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. GMI runs isolated/VPC GPU inference, but that is network isolation, NOT an attested TEE — so no confidential-compute, zero-retention, or E2EE claim is marked. Retention/training terms are unverified (the published policy page is JavaScript-only and would not render). Location Operator country: US Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.055/1M · Cached input $0.211/1M · Output $3.376/1M TTFT: 2.53 s Speed: insufficient data Last sample: |
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StreamLake
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$1.06 | $0.211 | $3.38 | $4.43 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. No provider-ZDR claim is tracked. StreamLake's public privacy policy is linked for API data-handling review. Location Operator country: SG Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.055/1M · Cached input $0.211/1M · Output $3.376/1M TTFT: 2.43 s Speed: insufficient data Last sample: |
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Venice
Zero retention
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$1.06 | $0.211 | $3.38 | $4.43 | |
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Retention Zero data retention. Verification: provider E2EE not verified. Venice's live model catalog marks this exact route private. Venice describes Private as contract-enforced zero data retention. This is policy-backed, not hardware-verified. TrustedRouter cannot verify a complete chain from the live endpoint to immutable source and model weights, so the route is not tracked as TEE or E2EE and is excluded from trustedrouter/e2e. Location Operator country: US Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.055/1M · Cached input $0.211/1M · Output $3.376/1M TTFT: insufficient data Speed: insufficient data |
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Z.AI
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$1.06 | $0.211 | $3.38 | $4.43 | |
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Retention Verification: privacy unknown. No provider-ZDR claim is tracked here. Z.AI/BigModel policy source is linked for users who need to review API retention and processing terms. Location Operator country: SG Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Weight format Unknown Price and speed Input $1.055/1M · Cached input $0.211/1M · Output $3.376/1M TTFT: 1.60 s Speed: insufficient data Last sample: |
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Append :nitro to the model ID, or send "provider": {"sort": "throughput"}, to route to the fastest provider instead.
Questions
What model ID should I use for GLM 5?
Use z-ai/glm-5 as the model field with the TrustedRouter OpenAI-compatible API. Credits routing and provider fallback happen behind that model ID.
Do you log my prompts or outputs?
No. Prompt and output content are intentionally excluded from the control plane and metadata systems. Optional content export requires explicit destination-level configuration.
Which providers serve GLM 5?
TrustedRouter currently lists Venice, Featherless AI, Z.AI, SiliconFlow, StreamLake, IO Intelligence, GMI Cloud, and Atlas Cloud for GLM 5. Provider availability and routing eligibility can change as catalog and health data update.
How much does GLM 5 cost through TrustedRouter?
The current lowest Credits input price is $0.9917/1M and the lowest Credits output price is $2.69025/1M. Prices are per one million tokens and come from the current route catalog.
How do I require zero data retention for GLM 5?
Set provider.min_privacy to zdr on the request. TrustedRouter considers only routes with a recorded zero-data-retention posture and fails closed if no eligible route remains.
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