GLM 5.1

zai-org · released 2026-04-07 · mit license

GLM-5.1 is Z.ai's open-weight flagship for agentic engineering (April 2026), leading SWE-bench Pro at 58.4% at launch. Strongest on coding and agentic tasks; trails the frontier on pure reasoning.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters753.86B total · MoE, — active
Architectureglm_moe_dsa
Context window203K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond86.2%
SWE-bench Verified77.8%
AIME95.3%
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score7.32
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M438.7 GB437.2 GB203K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Leads SWE-bench Pro (58.4) among open weights at release; Strong long-horizon agentic coding and tool use; Open weights under permissive MIT

Weaknesses: GPQA (86.2) and HLE (31.0) trail the top closed models; 200K context smaller than DeepSeek V4's 1M