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| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting Price | $6.00e-7 per prompt token | $3.00e-6 per prompt token |
| Capabilities | 12 decomposed | 8 decomposed |
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GLM-5 processes extended code contexts (supporting multi-file projects and large codebases) while maintaining semantic understanding of system architecture through attention mechanisms optimized for code structure. The model uses specialized tokenization for programming languages and maintains coherence across thousands of tokens of code context, enabling generation of complex features that respect existing patterns and dependencies.
Unique: Engineered specifically for complex systems design with attention mechanisms tuned for code structure and architectural patterns, rather than generic language modeling — enables understanding of system-wide dependencies and design constraints across extended contexts
vs alternatives: Outperforms general-purpose models on large-scale programming tasks because it's optimized for architectural coherence and long-horizon code generation rather than treating code as generic text
GLM-5 supports extended reasoning chains for agentic workflows through structured prompt patterns that enable step-by-step decomposition of complex tasks. The model can maintain state across multiple turns, reason about tool outputs, and make decisions about next actions — designed for long-horizon agent loops where the model must plan, execute, observe, and adapt across dozens of steps.
Unique: Explicitly engineered for long-horizon agent workflows with architectural patterns optimized for extended reasoning chains, rather than single-turn tool calling — maintains coherence and decision quality across dozens of reasoning steps
vs alternatives: Better suited for multi-step agentic tasks than general-purpose models because reasoning and tool-use patterns are baked into the training, not bolted on via prompt engineering
GLM-5 analyzes code for performance bottlenecks and suggests optimization strategies through understanding of algorithmic complexity, memory management, and system-level performance patterns. The model can identify inefficient algorithms, suggest data structure improvements, and recommend caching or parallelization strategies — enabling targeted performance improvements with understanding of trade-offs.
Unique: Understands algorithmic complexity and system-level performance patterns, enabling identification of fundamental bottlenecks and suggestion of targeted optimizations rather than micro-optimizations
vs alternatives: Identifies more fundamental performance issues than profiling tools because it understands algorithmic complexity and can suggest architectural improvements, not just code-level optimizations
GLM-5 generates comprehensive API specifications, including endpoint definitions, request/response schemas, error handling, and usage examples through understanding of API design best practices and REST/GraphQL patterns. The model can produce OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, generate API documentation, and suggest design improvements — enabling rapid API specification and documentation.
Unique: Generates comprehensive API specifications that follow REST/GraphQL best practices and include error handling, authentication, and usage examples — not just endpoint definitions
vs alternatives: Produces more complete and best-practice-aligned API specifications than simple code-to-spec tools because it understands API design patterns and includes comprehensive documentation
GLM-5 generates high-quality technical documentation, design documents, and architectural specifications through training on expert-level technical writing patterns. The model understands domain-specific terminology, maintains consistency across long documents, and can generate structured documentation (API specs, RFC-style documents, architecture decision records) with appropriate technical depth and precision.
Unique: Trained on expert-level technical documentation patterns and domain-specific terminology, enabling generation of publication-ready documentation with appropriate technical depth rather than generic summaries
vs alternatives: Produces more technically precise and domain-aware documentation than general-purpose models because it understands architectural patterns, trade-offs, and expert writing conventions specific to software engineering
GLM-5 breaks down complex, ambiguous problems into structured task hierarchies and implementation plans through chain-of-thought reasoning patterns. The model can identify dependencies, suggest phased approaches, and generate detailed step-by-step plans for tackling large engineering challenges — useful for translating high-level requirements into actionable development roadmaps.
Unique: Optimized for expert-level problem decomposition through training on complex system design patterns and architectural reasoning, enabling generation of sophisticated multi-phase plans rather than simple task lists
vs alternatives: Produces more sophisticated and architecturally-aware plans than general-purpose models because it understands system design patterns, dependency relationships, and phased implementation strategies
GLM-5 analyzes code for quality issues, architectural violations, and design improvements through patterns learned from expert code review practices. The model can identify performance bottlenecks, suggest refactoring opportunities, flag architectural inconsistencies, and provide detailed feedback on code quality — going beyond simple linting to understand design intent and system-wide implications.
Unique: Trained on expert code review patterns and architectural reasoning, enabling detection of design issues and architectural violations rather than just syntax and style problems
vs alternatives: Provides more sophisticated architectural and design feedback than linting tools because it understands system-wide implications and expert design patterns, not just local code quality
GLM-5 translates code between programming languages while preserving semantic meaning and adapting to language-specific idioms. The model understands language-specific patterns, libraries, and best practices, enabling translation that produces idiomatic code rather than mechanical line-by-line conversions — useful for migrating systems across language ecosystems or supporting polyglot architectures.
Unique: Produces idiomatic, language-specific code rather than mechanical translations because it understands language-specific patterns, libraries, and best practices learned from diverse codebases
vs alternatives: Generates more idiomatic and maintainable translations than simple pattern-matching tools because it understands semantic equivalence and language-specific idioms
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Generates natural language responses mimicking Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus writing style through fine-tuning on Qwen2.5 72B base model. Uses instruction-tuned architecture to follow complex multi-step prompts while maintaining coherent, well-structured prose with appropriate tone and formality levels. The model learns stylistic patterns from Claude outputs during fine-tuning rather than using retrieval or prompt engineering alone.
Unique: Fine-tuned specifically on Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus output patterns rather than generic instruction-tuning, creating a style-matched alternative that preserves Anthropic's prose characteristics while running on Qwen2.5's 72B architecture
vs alternatives: Offers Claude-quality writing at lower cost than Anthropic's API and with more deployment flexibility than proprietary models, though with less transparency about training methodology than fully open-source alternatives like Llama
Maintains coherent multi-turn dialogue through transformer-based attention mechanisms that track conversation history and speaker context. The instruction-tuned architecture processes entire conversation threads as input, allowing the model to reference previous exchanges, maintain consistent character/tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns without explicit memory structures.
Unique: Inherits Qwen2.5's instruction-tuning approach to conversation, which explicitly trains on multi-turn formats with clear role markers, enabling better context resolution than models trained primarily on single-turn examples
vs alternatives: Simpler integration than systems requiring external memory stores (RAG, vector DBs) since context is handled natively, but less sophisticated than models with explicit memory architectures or retrieval-augmented approaches for very long conversations
Magnum v4 72B scores higher at 25/100 vs Z.ai: GLM 5 at 24/100.
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Generates code snippets and technical explanations by applying instruction-tuned patterns learned from fine-tuning on Claude outputs. The model understands code context from natural language descriptions, can generate multiple programming languages, and provides explanations alongside code. Implementation relies on transformer attention over code tokens and learned associations between natural language intent and code patterns.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's code generation outputs, capturing Anthropic's approach to code explanation and safety considerations (e.g., error handling suggestions) rather than pure code-to-code translation
vs alternatives: Provides better code explanations and safety context than specialized code models like CodeLlama, but likely slower and less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on code-only datasets
Applies learned chain-of-thought reasoning patterns from Claude fine-tuning to break down complex problems into steps. The model generates intermediate reasoning steps before final answers, using transformer attention to track logical dependencies across reasoning chains. This is achieved through instruction-tuning on examples where Claude explicitly shows reasoning work.
Unique: Inherits Claude's explicit chain-of-thought training approach, which emphasizes showing reasoning work as part of the output rather than reasoning internally, making reasoning patterns visible and auditable
vs alternatives: More transparent reasoning than models without explicit chain-of-thought training, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on mathematical reasoning datasets or formal logic
Condenses long-form text into summaries while preserving key information, using attention mechanisms to identify salient content and instruction-tuned patterns for summary formatting. The model learns from Claude's summarization style, which emphasizes clarity and hierarchical organization of information. Works by attending to important tokens and generating compressed representations.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's summarization outputs, which emphasize hierarchical structure and clear topic organization rather than extractive summarization, producing more readable abstracts
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and readability than extractive summarization tools, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on summarization tasks or using dedicated abstractive architectures
Executes complex, multi-part instructions by parsing task structure and maintaining execution context across steps. The instruction-tuned architecture learns to identify task boundaries, handle conditional logic (if-then patterns), and sequence operations correctly. Implementation relies on transformer attention to track task state and learned patterns from Claude's instruction-following training.
Unique: Trained on Claude's instruction-following patterns, which emphasize explicit acknowledgment of task structure and step-by-step execution reporting, making task progress transparent
vs alternatives: More reliable instruction-following than base models without instruction-tuning, but less specialized than models with explicit task planning architectures or reinforcement learning from human feedback on instruction compliance
Answers questions by understanding context, identifying relevant information, and generating coherent responses. Uses transformer attention to locate answer-relevant tokens and instruction-tuned patterns to format responses appropriately. The model learns from Claude's question-answering style, which emphasizes accuracy, nuance, and acknowledgment of uncertainty.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's QA outputs, which emphasize acknowledging uncertainty, providing nuanced answers, and explaining reasoning rather than simple factual retrieval
vs alternatives: Better answer quality and nuance than retrieval-based QA systems, but without external knowledge bases or web search, limited to training data knowledge unlike RAG-augmented systems
Generates creative text including stories, essays, marketing copy, and other original content by learning stylistic patterns from Claude's creative outputs. The model uses transformer attention to maintain narrative coherence, character consistency, and thematic development across generated text. Fine-tuning captures Claude's approach to balancing creativity with clarity.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's creative outputs, which balance imaginative storytelling with clarity and coherence, producing more readable creative content than models trained purely on internet text
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and narrative coherence than base language models, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on creative writing datasets or with explicit story structure training