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GLM 5.1 vs Grok 4.20

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 5.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding.

Category leads
coding·GLM 5.1
Hype vs Reality
GLM 5.1
#56 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 4.20
#35 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than GLM 5.1
GLM 5.1
29.9 pts/$
$2.00/M
Grok 4.20
35.3 pts/$
$1.88/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GLM 5.1Grok 4.20
WeirdML
GLM 5.1 leads by +4.8
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GLM 5.1
57.1
Grok 4.20
52.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 5.1Grok 4.20
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
57.152.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 5.1$0.97$3.04203K tokens (~101 books)$14.83
xAI logoGrok 4.20$1.25$2.502.0M tokens (~1,000 books)$15.63