GLM 4.5 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
GLM 4.5 leads Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 12.8 to 11.9, and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs 1.5x less per output token ($1.50 vs $2.20 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 48 benchmarks have a result for both.
GLM 4.5 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GLM 4.5 for work measured by SWE-bench Verified or WeirdML, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 48
- GLM 4.5 only
- 13
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
- 5
- 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
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GLM 4.5
GLM 4.5 leads, 12.8 against 11.9.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GLM 4.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 72.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GLM 4.5 has a AIME result, 86.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GLM 4.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 81.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 4.5
GLM 4.5 leads, 1169 against 1158.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B takes 262K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
GLM 4.5 $0.0017, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GLM 4.5 not benchmarked, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 22.4 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Math Index: GLM 4.5 73.7 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 39.3, 34.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GLM 4.5 $2.20 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.50 per million output tokens, 1.5x apart.
- Context window
- GLM 4.5 takes 131K tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 262K.
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 | GLM 4.5 | Bars | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 19 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 44 | 4 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index43
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 64.2% | 69.6% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1275 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 67.5% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 73.8% | 58.5% | GLM 4.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.0% | 18.9% | GLM 4.5 |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 27.2% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | 41.2% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| ALE-Bench | 344.8 | 461.4 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1434 | 1412 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1440 | 1393 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1257 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1287 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.8 | 11.9 | GLM 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 43.0% | 43.6% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 72.2% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 78.2% | 61.8% | GLM 4.5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.0% | 4.5% | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1429 | 1372 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1433 | 1338 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1429 | 1380 | GLM 4.5 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | 49.5% | GLM 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 86.7% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 90.8% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| AA Math Index | 73.7 | 39.3 | GLM 4.5 |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 73.7% | 39.3% | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1427 | 1365 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1430 | 1367 | GLM 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 81.2% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 75.6% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 61.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 72.4% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 90.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.5% | 78.8% | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: science | 1444 | 1347 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1455 | 1347 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1438 | 1358 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1420 | 1343 | GLM 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1169 | 1158 | GLM 4.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1141 | 1110 | GLM 4.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1144 | 1098 | GLM 4.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1159 | 1084 | GLM 4.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1170 | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1165 | 1142 | GLM 4.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1096 | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index190
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 44.1% | 40.5% | GLM 4.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 52.7% | 45.7% | GLM 4.5 |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 73.4% | Not measured | Only GLM 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1357 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1404 | 1355 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1395 | 1333 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1437 | 1359 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1417 | 1346 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1465 | 1357 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1407 | 1325 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1415 | 1311 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1380 | 1305 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1418 | 1398 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1454 | 1360 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1413 | 1366 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1422 | 1344 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1415 | 1366 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1412 | 1378 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1403 | 1340 | GLM 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1404 | 1317 | GLM 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | 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
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 | Z.ai GLM 4.5 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Z.ai | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | July 25, 2025 | July 23, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.60 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.20 | $1.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GLM 4.5 better than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GLM 4.5 for work measured by SWE-bench Verified or WeirdML, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GLM 4.5 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
GLM 4.5 costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 and $1.50. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GLM 4.5 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the GLM 4.5 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?
48 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GLM 4.5's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.