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Claude Opus 4.5 vs GLM 5

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.5 wins 13 of 14 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · arena · knowledge.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.5
#113 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GLM 5
#55 by perf·#27 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
15.1x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
3.0 pts/$
$15.00/M
GLM 5
45.7 pts/$
$1.26/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.5GLM 5
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +35.3
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 4.5
80.0
GLM 5
44.7
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +32.8
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Opus 4.5
37.6
GLM 5
4.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +24.3
Claude Opus 4.5
1465.2
GLM 5
1441.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +12.2
Claude Opus 4.5
1467.7
GLM 5
1455.6
Chess Puzzles
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +2.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Opus 4.5
12.0
GLM 5
10.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.3
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.5
20.7
GLM 5
16.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +2.1
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.5
4.2
GLM 5
2.1
GPQA diamond
GLM 5 leads by +2.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 4.5
81.4
GLM 5
83.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +6.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.5
86.1
GLM 5
80.0
PostTrainBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +3.4
Claude Opus 4.5
17.3
GLM 5
13.9
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +10.6
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.5
54.4
GLM 5
43.8
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.6
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Claude Opus 4.5
76.7
GLM 5
72.1
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +10.7
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.1
GLM 5
52.4
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +15.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.7
GLM 5
48.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5GLM 5
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
80.044.7
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
37.64.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1465.21441.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1467.71455.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
12.010.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
20.716.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
4.22.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
81.483.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
86.180.0
PostTrainBench
17.313.9
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
54.443.8
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
76.772.1
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
63.152.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
63.748.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00
z-ai logoGLM 5$0.60$1.92203K tokens (~101 books)$9.30
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