diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
index 5646b79f5..a1fa66e60 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/base.py
@@ -762,6 +762,49 @@ class ImagePipelineConfig(PipelineConfig):
         return latents, batch_size, channels, height, width
 
 
+@dataclass
+class SpatialImagePipelineConfig(ImagePipelineConfig):
+    """Base config for spatial image pipelines (e.g. GLM-Image) with 4D latents (B, C, H', W').
+
+    Overrides shard_latents_for_sp / gather_latents_for_sp to shard along the height dimension
+    so that each SP rank gets (B, C, H'_local, W') instead of using the token-style (B, S, C) path.
+    """
+
+    def shard_latents_for_sp(self, batch, latents):
+        # 4D latents (B, C, H', W') -> shard along H' (dim=2); otherwise fall back to base (B, S, C)
+        sp_world_size = get_sp_world_size()
+        if sp_world_size <= 1:
+            return latents, False
+        if latents.dim() != 4:
+            return super().shard_latents_for_sp(batch, latents)
+
+        # (B, C, H', W')
+        _, _, h_lat, w_lat = latents.shape
+        if h_lat % sp_world_size != 0:
+            pad_len = sp_world_size - (h_lat % sp_world_size)
+            pad = torch.zeros(
+                (latents.shape[0], latents.shape[1], pad_len, latents.shape[3]),
+                dtype=latents.dtype,
+                device=latents.device,
+            )
+            latents = torch.cat([latents, pad], dim=2)
+            h_lat = latents.shape[2]
+        rank_in_sp_group = get_sp_parallel_rank()
+        chunk_size = h_lat // sp_world_size
+        h0 = rank_in_sp_group * chunk_size
+        h1 = h0 + chunk_size
+        sharded = latents[:, :, h0:h1, :].contiguous()
+        return sharded, True
+
+    def gather_latents_for_sp(self, latents):
+        if get_sp_world_size() <= 1:
+            return latents
+        if latents.dim() != 4:
+            return super().gather_latents_for_sp(latents)
+        # Gather along dim=2 (H') to match shard_latents_for_sp
+        return sequence_model_parallel_all_gather(latents, dim=2)
+
+
 @dataclass
 class SlidingTileAttnConfig(PipelineConfig):
     """Configuration for sliding tile attention."""
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/glm_image.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/glm_image.py
index 95ba40333..2801eeb37 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/glm_image.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/configs/pipeline_configs/glm_image.py
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.encoders.base import EncoderConfig
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.encoders.t5 import T5Config
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.vaes.glmimage import GlmImageVAEConfig
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.pipeline_configs.base import (
-    ImagePipelineConfig,
     ModelTaskType,
+    SpatialImagePipelineConfig,
 )
 
 
 @dataclass
-class GlmImagePipelineConfig(ImagePipelineConfig):
+class GlmImagePipelineConfig(SpatialImagePipelineConfig):
     """Configuration for the GlmImage pipeline."""
 
     vae_precision: str = "bf16"
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ class GlmImagePipelineConfig(ImagePipelineConfig):
     # VAE
     vae_config: VAEConfig = field(default_factory=GlmImageVAEConfig)
 
+    # GLM-Image uses T5 text encoder; base default is EncoderConfig() which lacks
+    # parallel_folding and causes AttributeError + fallback to native T5 with missing weights.
+    text_encoder_configs: tuple[EncoderConfig, ...] = field(
+        default_factory=lambda: (T5Config(),)
+    )
+
     enable_autocast: bool = False
 
     def __post_init__(self):
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/glm_image.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/glm_image.py
index 1bae8c855..e6ab13a1c 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/glm_image.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/models/dits/glm_image.py
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ import torch.nn.functional as F
 from diffusers.models.attention import FeedForward
 
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.configs.models.dits.glmimage import GlmImageDitConfig
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.distributed.parallel_state import (
+    get_sp_parallel_rank,
+    get_sp_world_size,
+)
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.attention import USPAttention
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.layers.layernorm import (
     ScaleResidualLayerNormScaleShift,
@@ -806,6 +810,18 @@ class GlmImageTransformer2DModel(CachableDiT, OffloadableDiTMixin):
         prior_embedding = self.prior_token_embedding(prior_token_id)
         prior_embedding[prior_token_drop] *= 0.0
         prior_hidden_states = self.prior_projector(prior_embedding)
+        # SP: when latents are H-sharded, hidden_states has fewer patches than prior_hidden_states.
+        # Shard prior_hidden_states along seq dim to match (prior is row-major, same as latent patches).
+        if (
+            get_sp_world_size() > 1
+            and prior_hidden_states.shape[1] != hidden_states.shape[1]
+        ):
+            rank = get_sp_parallel_rank()
+            sp_world_size = get_sp_world_size()
+            chunk = prior_hidden_states.shape[1] // sp_world_size
+            prior_hidden_states = prior_hidden_states[
+                :, rank * chunk : (rank + 1) * chunk, :
+            ]
         hidden_states = hidden_states + prior_hidden_states
 
         temb = self.time_condition_embed(