# GLM-5V-Turbo

> Native multimodal vision-to-code model that turns design mockups, screenshots and video into working front-end code and GUI actions.

- Maker: Z.ai (Zhipu / GLM)
- Line: GLM Turbo
- Canonical page: https://ai-tldr.dev/models/glm-5v-turbo/
- Updated: 2026-06-18

## In short

GLM-5V-Turbo is the multimodal vision model in Z.ai (Zhipu / GLM)'s GLM Turbo line, released 1 April 2026 and now the current flagship of that line. It has a 200K-token context window and costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens. You can use it through Z.ai.

## Facts

| Fact | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Context window | 200K (max output 128K) | [1] |
| Input price | $1.20 per 1M tokens | [2] |
| Output price | $4.00 per 1M tokens | [2] |
| Licence | Proprietary (API-only) · API only | [1] |
| Released | 1 April 2026 | [3] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not disclosed | [1] |

## Sources

1. [GLM-5V-Turbo — Z.ai developer docs](https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5v-turbo)
2. [Z.ai API pricing](https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing)
3. [Z.ai launches GLM-5V-Turbo (MarkTechPost)](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/01/z-ai-launches-glm-5v-turbo-a-native-multimodal-vision-coding-model-optimized-for-openclaw-and-high-capacity-agentic-engineering-workflows-everywhere/)

## Overview

GLM-5V-Turbo is the multimodal vision model in Z.ai (Zhipu / GLM)'s GLM Turbo line, released 1 April 2026 and now the current flagship of that line. Unlike a text model with a bolt-on image reader, GLM-5V-Turbo treats visual perception as a core part of reasoning, planning and execution: it takes images, short video clips, design drafts and document layouts directly in context and produces code, structured actions or GUI steps as output.

The headline use case is vision-to-code. GLM-5V-Turbo is tuned to turn a design mockup, screenshot or product walkthrough into runnable front-end code, and it is explicitly integrated for agentic coding workflows such as OpenClaw and Claude Code. Architecturally it builds on the GLM-5-Turbo text base, adding the CogViT vision encoder and a Multimodal Multi-Token Prediction (MMTP) path so it keeps competitive text-only coding ability while gaining native multimodal grounding.

GLM-5V-Turbo is served only through Z.ai's API and chat platform — unlike the open-weights GLM-5 flagship, this Turbo vision variant ships proprietary with no published weights. It exposes a 200K-token context window and up to 128K tokens of output, supports thinking mode, streaming, function calling and context caching, and is priced at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens.

## Benchmarks

- Design2Code (multimodal coding): 94.8% ([source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752))
- AndroidWorld (GUI agents): 75.7% ([source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752))
- OSWorld (GUI agents): 62.3% ([source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752))
- MMSearch (multimodal tool use): 72.9% ([source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752))
- ImageMining (visual search): 30.7% ([source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752))

## Pricing

- Input: $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Output: $4.00 per 1M tokens

Same per-token pricing as the GLM-5-Turbo text model. API-only via the Z.ai platform.

Source: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing

## Strengths

- Native multimodal grounding — images, video, design drafts and document layouts are processed as first-class reasoning inputs, not OCR'd afterthoughts.
- Vision-to-code: converts mockups, screenshots and walkthroughs into executable front-end code, the model's primary design goal.
- Built for agentic engineering — explicitly integrated with OpenClaw and Claude Code workflows, with function calling and context caching.
- Keeps competitive text-only coding ability via the GLM-5-Turbo base while adding multimodal perception.
- Large 200K context with up to 128K output, suited to long, tool-augmented multi-step tasks.

## Best for

- Turning Figma/design mockups and UI screenshots directly into working front-end code.
- GUI and computer-use agents that read a screen and take multi-step actions (Android, desktop, web).
- Multimodal document understanding — extracting structure and answers from complex PDF and document layouts.
- Visual tool use and multimodal search inside agent frameworks.
- Video-grounded tasks such as reasoning over screen recordings and product walkthroughs.

## How to access

- [Z.ai](https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5v-turbo) — model id `glm-5v-turbo`

## GLM Turbo versions

- GLM-5V-Turbo (1 April 2026) — this page
- [GLM-5-Turbo](https://ai-tldr.dev/models/glm-5-turbo/) (15 March 2026)

## FAQ

### What is GLM-5V-Turbo?

GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai (Zhipu / GLM)'s native multimodal vision model, released on 1 April 2026 as the current flagship of the GLM Turbo line. It takes images, video, design drafts and documents directly in context and outputs code or structured GUI actions, with a focus on turning designs and screenshots into working front-end code.

### Is GLM-5V-Turbo open weights?

No. Unlike the open-weights GLM-5 flagship, GLM-5V-Turbo ships proprietary and is available only through Z.ai's API and chat platform — Z.ai has not published downloadable weights for this Turbo vision variant.

### How much does GLM-5V-Turbo cost?

Z.ai prices GLM-5V-Turbo at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens — the same per-token rate as the GLM-5-Turbo text model. It is served via the Z.ai API using the model id glm-5v-turbo.

### What context length and output limit does GLM-5V-Turbo support?

GLM-5V-Turbo supports a 200K-token context window and up to 128K tokens of output, along with thinking mode, streaming output, function calling and context caching.

## Links

- [Z.ai — official site](https://z.ai)
- [GLM-5V-Turbo — Z.ai developer docs](https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5v-turbo)
- [Z.ai API pricing](https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing)
- [GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (paper)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752)
- [Z.ai launches GLM-5V-Turbo (MarkTechPost)](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/01/z-ai-launches-glm-5v-turbo-a-native-multimodal-vision-coding-model-optimized-for-openclaw-and-high-capacity-agentic-engineering-workflows-everywhere/)
- [GLM-5V-Turbo turns design mockups into front-end code (The Decoder)](https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ais-glm-5v-turbo-turns-design-mockups-directly-into-executable-front-end-code/)
- [Z.ai chat (GLM playground)](https://chat.z.ai)

Source: AI/TLDR LLM registry, https://ai-tldr.dev/models/glm-5v-turbo/