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GLM 5
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GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows. Built for expert developers, it delivers production-grade performance on large-scale programming tasks, rivaling l
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HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download GLM 5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
744B parameters (MoE with 40B active), a Q4 quantized file requires about 450 GB to 480 GB of memory
- BARE MINIMUM
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (192 GB Unified Memory) with heavy
192 GB UNIFIED MEMORY OR 96 GB VRAM PLUS
~$3800 USEDToo large for single consumer GPUs. Runs highly compressed 1.5-bit to 2-bit quants or heavy RAM offload at ~1 to 3 tok/s
- SWEET SPOT
Dual Apple Mac Studio M4 Ultra cluster (2x 512 GB unified me
512 GB TO 1 TB COMBINED MEMORY
~$16000 NEWQ4_K_M quantization at ~15 to 25 tok/s with 64k to 128k context
- FULL POWER
Dedicated 8x NVIDIA H200 141GB server node
1128 GB VRAM
~$280000 NEWFP8 or BF16 full precision at ~60+ tok/s with full 200k to 1M context
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WILL MY BOX RUN GLM 5?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long GLM 5 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (192 GB Unified Memory) with heavy | SWEET SPOTDual Apple Mac Studio M4 Ultra cluster (2x 512 GB unified me | FULL POWERDedicated 8x NVIDIA H200 141GB server node |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~4.2 MIN★★★★★ | ~25 S★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~13 MIN★★★★★ | ~75 S★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~67 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.7 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~3.5 HR★★★★★ | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~2.1 HR★★★★★ | ~13 MIN★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
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