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GLM-5.1

Zhipu's open flagship — a SWE-bench official-leaderboard regular.

Open weightstextREL 2026-04-07
Compare this model →Verified 2026-06-12

Overview

GLM-5.1 is Z.ai's (Zhipu) open-weights flagship. The GLM-5 family posts 72.8% on the official SWE-bench leaderboard, making it a credible open coding model. 202K context at $0.98/$3.08 per 1M tokens.

Benchmark scores

Methodology →
Intelligence51
Coding72.8
Reasoningn/a
Mathn/a

Sources and verification

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Official SWE-bench leaderboard presence
  • Open weights
  • Strong Chinese + English

Trade-offs

  • Text-only
  • Smaller context than rivals

Reach for this model when

Open-weights coding and bilingual (EN/ZH) workloads.

Run something like it locally

Self-hostable via vLLM; quantised builds run on 48GB+ setups.

vLLM

High-throughput LLM serving for GPUs.

OPEN SOURCE24–80 GB VRAM
VRAM fit24–80 GB