As an AI consultancy from Rosenheim, we support companies in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) with GDPR-compliant integration of open-source models such as GLM-5. Through self-hosting in EU data centres, you can deploy GLM-5 in compliance with data protection regulations.
Open-Source Powerhouse
Apache 2.0 Licence
GLM-5 is fully open source and available under the Apache 2.0 licence:
- Free commercial use without licensing fees
- Modification and customisation possible
- Deployment on your own infrastructure
- Full control over data and model
- No vendor lock-in
Mixture-of-Experts Architecture
With 744 billion parameters (40 billion active), GLM-5 offers one of the most powerful open-source architectures:
- Efficient resource utilisation through sparse activation
- Comparable performance to proprietary frontier models
- DeepSeek Sparse Attention for long contexts
- Optimised for complex reasoning tasks
- Trained on 28.5 trillion tokens
Agentic AI Capabilities
Autonomous Workflows
GLM-5 was specifically designed for agentic AI:
- Multi-step planning and execution
- Native tool-calling and function-calling
- Web browsing integration
- Independent problem-solving across multiple steps
- Ideal for autonomous software engineering tasks
Coding Excellence
Top performance in software engineering benchmarks:
- 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified (real GitHub issues)
- Strong code generation and debugging capabilities
- Support for many programming languages
- Code reviews and refactoring
Context Window & Performance
200k Token Context
GLM-5 offers one of the largest context windows among open-source models:
- Processing entire codebases
- Analysis of extensive document collections
- Long conversations without context loss
- Ideal for research and enterprise applications
Benchmark Results
GLM-5 outperforms many commercial models:
- MMLU: 85% (academic knowledge)
- GSM8k: 97% (mathematics)
- AIME 2025: 84% (competition mathematics)
- GPQA: 68.2% (graduate-level science)
EU Deployment Options
Self-Hosting in EU Data Centres
For GDPR compliance, we offer support with:
- Deployment on AWS EU regions (Frankfurt, Ireland)
- Azure EU regions (West Europe, Germany)
- Google Cloud EU regions (Frankfurt, Belgium)
- Private cloud or on-premise solutions
Hardware Requirements
GLM-5 is available in various quantisations:
- BF16: Full precision (8× NVIDIA H100 or Ascend NPUs)
- FP8: Production deployment (reduced VRAM requirements)
- INT4/INT8: Efficient quantisation for limited resources
Alternative API Access
For rapid prototyping without your own infrastructure:
- Z.ai API: Official API access from Zhipu AI
- Third-party providers: Together.ai, Lambda Cloud and others
- Costs: Approx. $1.00/1M input tokens, $3.20/1M output tokens
Note: Direct API usage occurs via Chinese or US infrastructure and may not be GDPR-compliant without a data processing agreement.
Integration & Support
Our Recommendation
Self-hosting in EU data centres is the best option for GDPR compliance. We support you with:
- Infrastructure planning and hardware sizing
- Deployment and optimisation
- Integration into existing systems
- Compliant usage
- Fine-tuning for specific use cases
For companies seeking a leading open-source model with strong agentic capabilities, GLM-5 is an excellent choice – provided the appropriate infrastructure is available.