Zhipu AI

GLM-5

7.6/10
Maker
Zhipu AI
Origin
China
Released
Feb 2026

Strengths & weaknesses

  • Coding performance that rivals or matches Claude on several benchmarks
  • Open-weight, giving flexibility for self-hosted or fine-tuned deployments
  • Smaller ecosystem of tooling and integrations than the big three labs
  • Less battle-tested in production outside China-based deployments

Evaluation

100% of weight measured

Scored on GLM-5 · sources as of Sep 19, 2026

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Enterprise fit

Highest-ROI use cases

Where GLM-5 fits inside a company, ranked by the strength of published ROI evidence for each use case, then by its independent rating for the work.

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  1. 01
    Marketing & sales
    • Rated #6 of 22 directory models on LMArena text (creative writing), the closest independent rating for this work
    • Built for this kind of work (Language Models)
  2. 02
    Strategy, consulting, finance
    • Rated #7 of 22 directory models on LMArena text (hard prompts), the closest independent rating for this work
    • Built for this kind of work (Language Models)
  3. 03
    Customer supportField study
    Customer service
    • Rated #6 of 22 directory models on LMArena text (overall), the closest independent rating for this work
    • Built for this kind of work (Language Models)

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