Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GLM 5.1
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads GLM 5.1 on coding, 70.7 to 49.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 8.8x less per output token ($0.50 vs $4.40 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 30 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Haiku 5.5 or GLM 5.1: which to pick
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 49.2 for GLM 5.1.
Pick GLM 5.1 for work measured by Vending-Bench 2 or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 30
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 33
- GLM 5.1 only
- 59
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 70.7 against 49.2.
5 and 3 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 43.4 against 26.1.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only GLM 5.1 has a AA Agentic Index result, 23.9.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GLM 5.1 has a GPQA Diamond result, 84.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GLM 5.1 has a AIME result, 91.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GLM 5.1 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.9%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 5.1
GLM 5.1 leads, 1290 against 1262.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a Vals Index result, 58.7%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens against 205K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, GLM 5.1 $0.0036 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GLM 5.1 has the number, $0.60.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 70.7 from 5 benchmarks, GLM 5.1 49.2 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Math, 36.9 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ProofBench: Claude Haiku 5.5 89.0% against GLM 5.1 22.2%, 66.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against GLM 5.1 $4.40 per million output tokens, 8.8x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens, GLM 5.1 205K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Bars | GLM 5.1 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 7 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 3 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 1 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 3 | 3 | ||
| General | 3 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 6 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 91.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1586 | 1508 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 55.8 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.4% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.4% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.4% | 31.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.6% | 25.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | 0.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.9% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 44.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 20.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 75.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | 44.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 43.2% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 57.1% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 887.1 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1485 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1484 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1605 | 1505 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1569 | 1508 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SciCode | 9.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | 26.1 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | 149.8 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 23.9 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1175 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1167 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1162 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1182 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1053 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1164 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1120 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1163 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1315 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench research | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 54.1% | 44.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 31.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.3% | 27.9% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 10.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vals Science Index | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 97.7% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | 40.9% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | $5,634 | GLM 5.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 84.5% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 35.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 86.8% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | 30.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | 89.9% | GLM 5.1 |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 55.1% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | 20.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1473 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1478 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1482 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 91.9% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | 93.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | 36.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | 22.2% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1473 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1470 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 86.9% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.4% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.5% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.2% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | 41.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 34.0% | GLM 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1478 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1474 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1465 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1452 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index33
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1262 | 1290 | GLM 5.1 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1291 | 1292 | GLM 5.1 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1313 | 1265 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1294 | 1366 | GLM 5.1 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1342 | 1336 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1278 | 1268 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1218 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1141 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 53.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 63.2% | 61.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.5% | 72.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| IFBench | Not measured | 76.3% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | 73.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| DTBench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMCA | 51.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ExploitBench | Not measured | 18.1% | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1463 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1453 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1453 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1476 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1448 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1515 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1467 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1435 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1424 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1470 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1468 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1454 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1449 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1473 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1467 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1454 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1442 | Only GLM 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GLM 5.1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | Z.ai GLM 5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Z.ai |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | April 7, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 205K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $1.40 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $4.40 |
| Coding index | 70.7 | 49.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.60 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than GLM 5.1 for coding?
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 49.2 for GLM 5.1. Pick GLM 5.1 for work measured by Vending-Bench 2 or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GLM 5.1?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; GLM 5.1 costs $1.40 and $4.40. Cost per solved task is known for GLM 5.1 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GLM 5.1?
Claude Haiku 5.5, with 1M tokens against 205K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GLM 5.1 comparison based on?
30 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Haiku 5.5's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and GLM 5.1's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.