What are the hardware requirements for GLM 5.1?

GLM 5.1 requires approximately 231.9 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 5.1 and how large is it?

GLM 5.1 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 5.1 perform on standard benchmarks?

GLM 5.1 has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1466. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

GLM 5.1 by zai-org — VRAM 231.9GB, 198K context

Name: GLM 5.1
Author: zai-org

GLM 5.1 is an open-source language model by zai-org. Features: 753.9b LLM, VRAM: 231.9GB, Context: 198K, License: mit, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.56, ELO: 1466.

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-5.1

GLM 5.1 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1466 vs 1272 (so35) 15.3%

^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 5.1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GLM 5.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1
Model Size	753.9b
Required VRAM	231.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-01
Maintainer	zai-org
Model Type	glm_moe_dsa
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-282 5.3 GB: 2-of-282 5.4 GB: 3-of-282 5.4 GB: 4-of-282 5.4 GB: 5-of-282 5.4 GB: 6-of-282 5.4 GB: 7-of-282 5.4 GB: 8-of-282 5.4 GB: 9-of-282 5.4 GB: 10-of-282 5.4 GB: 11-of-282 5.4 GB: 12-of-282 5.4 GB: 13-of-282 5.4 GB: 14-of-282 5.4 GB: 15-of-282 5.4 GB: 16-of-282 5.4 GB: 17-of-282 5.4 GB: 18-of-282 5.4 GB: 19-of-282 5.4 GB: 20-of-282 5.4 GB: 21-of-282 5.4 GB: 22-of-282 5.4 GB: 23-of-282 5.4 GB: 24-of-282 5.4 GB: 25-of-282 5.4 GB: 26-of-282 5.4 GB: 27-of-282 5.4 GB: 28-of-282 5.4 GB: 29-of-282 5.4 GB: 30-of-282 5.4 GB: 31-of-282 5.4 GB: 32-of-282 5.4 GB: 33-of-282 5.4 GB: 34-of-282 5.4 GB: 35-of-282 5.4 GB: 36-of-282 5.4 GB: 37-of-282 5.4 GB: 38-of-282 5.3 GB: 39-of-282 5.4 GB: 40-of-282 5.4 GB: 41-of-282 5.4 GB: 42-of-282 5.4 GB: 43-of-282
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	202752
Model Max Length	202752
Transformers Version	5.4.0
Vocabulary Size	154880

Rank the GLM 5.1 capabilities

Have you tried this model? Rate its performance — this feedback helps the ML community find the right model for their needs.

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 5.1

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
GLM 5.1 DQ4plus Q8	6	1692	186 GB

Best Alternatives to GLM 5.1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
GLM 5	198K / 237.3 GB	156294	2119
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