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Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

GLM 5V Turbo Overview

GLM-5V-Turbo is a native multimodal model from Z.ai that extends the GLM family with joint image, video, and text input aimed at vision-centered coding and agent workflows. The model reads screenshots, design drafts, document layouts, and interface captures and generates runnable code from them, covering tasks such as turning a visual design into a working front end, diagnosing rendering and layout defects from screen captures, and operating graphical user interfaces during long-horizon agent runs. It accepts roughly 200,000 input tokens and can emit up to 131,072 output tokens in a single response, which supports sessions that hold specifications, source files, logs, and visual references at the same time.

Training includes a joint reinforcement learning stage spanning more than 30 tasks simultaneously, an approach Z.ai describes as a way to counter the trade-off in which improving visual recognition degrades programming ability and the reverse. Reported evaluations cover pure-text coding on the backend, frontend, and repository exploration tracks of CC-Bench-V2, together with agent execution suites such as PinchBench, ClawEval, and ZClawBench, indicating that text coding behavior is retained after visual input is added.

GLM 5V Turbo Interactive Demo

Model settings

Max output tokens

Default 65,536 · max 65,536

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GLM 5V Turbo Details & Performance

Details

Resources

Vision Tasks

CaptioningChart Question AnsweringClassificationDocument Question AnsweringImage TaggingMulti-Label ClassificationOCRVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Features

Foundation VisionLLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

Arena Rankings

GLM 5V Turbo Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across six vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated August 26, 2026Pricing updated August 26, 2026

Overall score#25 of 33
65.3%
Avg cost / sample#15 of 33
$0.0031
Avg speed / sample#11 of 33
6.35s
Avg tokens / sample
2.2K

Strengths and weaknesses

GLM 5V Turbo averages 65.3% across the six Vision Evals tasks, ranking #25 of 33 models overall.

Its weakest relative showing is Reasoning, ranking #28 of 33 at 31.8%.

At $0.0031 per sample it is the 15th cheapest of the 33 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 6.3s per sample makes it the 11th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianGLM 5V Turbo

Field medians: Object Detection 54.4%, Counting 60.8%, Identification 84.4%, OCR 89.3%, Data Extraction 85.6%, Reasoning 55.6%.

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection
56.5%
#14 of 33$0.00528.59s
Counting
48.6%
#27 of 33$0.00174.35s
Identification
84.4%
#13 of 33$0.00154.59s
OCR
89.3%
#17 of 33$0.003012.50s
Data Extraction
81.4%
#26 of 33$0.00184.35s
Reasoning (low)
31.8%
#28 of 33$0.00173.77s
Reasoning (high)
49.7%
#29 of 33$0.006929.02s
  • Thinking longer helps: 17.9 points higher on reasoning at high effort for 4.2x the cost and 7.7x the latency.

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

33 models on the current benchmark · scores and efficiency pooled across all six tasks at low effort · GLM 5V Turbo highlighted

GLM 5V Turbo scores from a single evaluation run · Methodology

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GLM 5V Turbo Pricing

GLM 5V Turbo costs $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$1.20 / 1M tokens
Output$4.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.240 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Aug 26, 2026

GLM 5V Turbo License

Proprietary

GLM 5V Turbo is proprietary: the weights are not distributed, and the GLM 5V Turbo license is the vendor's commercial terms of service that you accept when you call the API.

Commercial use
Permitted under the vendor terms, typically metered per token or per request, with the vendor usage policy applying to your inputs and outputs.
Modification
Not available. GLM 5V Turbo weights are closed, so you can configure prompts and use vendor-hosted fine-tuning where it is offered, but you cannot modify the model itself.
Redistribution
Not permitted. You cannot self-host or resell the model; you build on the hosted API instead.

Vendor terms govern data retention, whether your inputs can be trained on, rate limits, and regional availability, and they can change with notice. Review them if you handle regulated or customer data.

Do I need a commercial license for GLM 5V Turbo?

Proprietary terms are set by the vendor rather than negotiated per project, and no open-source obligation attaches to your code. If you would rather deploy a model whose commercial license is included in your plan — on Roboflow Managed Cloud or a Self-Hosted Inference Server — Roboflow's licensing page lists the supported alternatives to GLM 5V Turbo.

Do not hesitate to reach out with questions for your commercial project — our team will help you start solving business problems on the first call. See Roboflow commercial licensing for the models included in each plan.

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Frequently Asked Questions About GLM 5V Turbo Vision

Yes. GLM 5V Turbo accepts image input and handles OCR, data extraction, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is Identification at 84.4% (#13 of 33). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes. its transcriptions match the ground truth 89.3% on average (#17 of 33) on Vision Evals OCR. Pulling specific fields out of documents (data extraction) scores 81.4%.

Not its strength. On Vision Evals, GLM 5V Turbo scores 56.5% mAP@50 on object detection (#14 of 33) and 48.7% exact-match accuracy on object counting. For production counting or precise localization, pairing it with a specialized detector like RF-DETR or your own trained model in a Roboflow Workflow is usually more reliable: detect the objects, then count the detections.

On our benchmark's task mix, GLM 5V Turbo averages $0.0031 per sample at $1.20 per 1M input and $4.00 per 1M output tokens (#15 of 33 on cost), with an average speed of 6.3s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, GLM 5V Turbo sits #25 of 33 at 65.3%, just behind Qwen3-VL 235B (65.8%) and just ahead of Grok 4.5 (64.3%). See the full side-by-side: GLM 5V Turbo vs Qwen3-VL 235B.