What are the hardware requirements for GLM 5?

GLM 5 requires approximately 237.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 198K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GLM 5 and how large is it?

GLM 5 is developed by zai-org, a model with 753.9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does GLM 5 perform on standard benchmarks?

GLM 5 has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1458. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

GLM 5 by zai-org — VRAM 237.3GB, 198K context

Name: GLM 5
Author: zai-org

GLM 5 is an open-source language model by zai-org. Features: 753.9b LLM, VRAM: 237.3GB, Context: 198K, License: mit, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.55, ELO: 1458.

Arxiv:2602.15763 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Eval-results Glm moe dsa Moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5

GLM 5 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1458 vs 1272 (so35) 14.6%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

GLM 5 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GLM 5
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5
Model Size	753.9b
Required VRAM	237.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	zai-org
Model Type	glm_moe_dsa
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Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	202752
Model Max Length	202752
Transformers Version	5.0.2.dev0
Vocabulary Size	154880

Rank the GLM 5 capabilities

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the GLM 5

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
GLM 5 4bit	7	1115	210 GB
GLM 5 MXFP4 Q8	1	172	241 GB

Best Alternatives to GLM 5

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
GLM 5.1	198K / 231.9 GB	93343	1829
GLM 5 FP8	198K / 243 GB	961083	182
GLM 5.1 FP8	198K / 237.6 GB	470901	119
GLM 5.1 Abliterated	198K / 226.8 GB	165	11
GLM 5.1 FP8	198K / 243 GB	30	5
GLM 5	198K / 242.7 GB	27	17
GLM 5.1 AWQ	198K / 119.9 GB	9243	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than zai-org/GLM-5.