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GLM 5

GLM 5 is a model from Z.ai, run through Amazon Bedrock. It places 7= of 14 on the Hurdle Index, and falls below the 90% bar on pay-gap reasoning.

Lab
Z.ai
Called as
zai.glm-5
Price, per million tokens
$1 in, $3.2 out
Tokens per task
1,525 read, 2,443 written
Output limit
32,000 tokens
Run
23 October 2026, 120 attempts

Hurdle Index

18.8%14.8% to 23.2%. Place 7= of 14.

Cost per task

$0.00939th cheapest of 14. List price of the tokens used.

Time per task

22 s7th fastest of 14. Wall-clock time of each call.

On each benchmark

BenchmarkMean, 95% intervalPlaceEvery runBest of 3Cost per taskCut offBar
Pay-gap reasoning18.8% 14.8% to 23.2%7= of 146.2%34.3%$0.0093noneBelow

Every attempt

Pay-gap reasoning: 40 tasks, three attempts each, one cell per attempt. White is a perfect answer, black is none of it right.

Attempt 1
Attempt 2
Attempt 3

Where it misses

The share of each kind of rubric line it got wrong, across every attempt.

Who is in scope64.2%
Mean hourly gap97.5%
Median hourly gap90.8%
Variable pay87.2%
Quartile pay bands92.5%
Gaps by category81.2%
Joint assessment trigger58.3%

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