GLM 5 vs GPT-5.1-Codex
Updated October 21, 2026. 21 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick GLM 5 for coding: it scores 59.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 50.5 for GPT-5.1-Codex.
Pick GPT-5.1-Codex when the context window is larger, 400K against 205K tokens, or when what matters is LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or Terminal-Bench, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 21
- GLM 5 only
- 54
- GPT-5.1-Codex only
- 5
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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, four public coding benchmarks
GLM 5
GLM 5 scores 59.7 against 50.5.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GLM 5
GLM 5 leads, 27.9 against 23.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GLM 5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 83.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GLM 5 has a AIME result, 91.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GLM 5 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.0%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 5
GLM 5 leads, 1247 against 1162.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.1-Codex
GPT-5.1-Codex takes 400K tokens against 205K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GLM 5
GLM 5 $0.0026, GPT-5.1-Codex $0.0063 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
GLM 5
GLM 5 $0.63, GPT-5.1-Codex $0.892.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- GLM 5 59.7 from 2 benchmarks, GPT-5.1-Codex 50.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 10.2 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena WebDev: HTML: GLM 5 1450 against GPT-5.1-Codex 1346, 17.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GLM 5 $3.20 against GPT-5.1-Codex $10.00 per million output tokens, 3.1x apart.
- Context window
- GLM 5 takes 205K tokens, GPT-5.1-Codex 400K.
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 5 | Bars | GPT-5.1-Codex | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 4 | 1 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 15 | 6 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index53
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.8% | 66.0% | GLM 5 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 69.7% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1435 | 1337 | GLM 5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 81.9% | 85.5% | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 71.4% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 23.4% | 13.1% | GLM 5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 84.9% | Only GPT-5.1-Codex measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.2% | 34.8% | GLM 5 |
| Terminal-Bench | 52.4% | 57.8% | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 765.6 | 1244.9 | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1461 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1460 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1424 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1450 | 1346 | GLM 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 27.9 | 23.7 | GLM 5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.8 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1018 | Only GPT-5.1-Codex measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1123 | 1086 | GLM 5 |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1136 | 1191 | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1152 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1144 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1148 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.2% | 83.0% | GLM 5 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $4,432 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.0% | 86.0% | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 29.3% | 25.7% | GLM 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 87.8% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 44.7% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1452 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1454 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1460 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 91.7% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 95.7 | Only GPT-5.1-Codex measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 95.7% | Only GPT-5.1-Codex measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 80.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1440 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1451 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.1% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 52.5% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 62.9% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.0% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 94.3% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only GPT-5.1-Codex measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1460 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1455 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1453 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1430 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1247 | 1162 | GLM 5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1230 | 1237 | GPT-5.1-Codex |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1234 | 1138 | GLM 5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1228 | 1213 | GLM 5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1229 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1246 | 1153 | GLM 5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1168 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1146 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GLM 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 72.3% | 70.0% | GLM 5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 75.7% | 69.3% | GLM 5 |
| CL-bench | 18.7% | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1446 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1428 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1438 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1458 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1430 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1511 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1447 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1416 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1423 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1456 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1454 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1436 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1434 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1456 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1446 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1437 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1426 | Not measured | Only GLM 5 measured |
| 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 5 | GPT-5.1-Codex | 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
GLM 5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GLM 5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GLM 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 | Z.ai GLM 5 | OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Z.ai | OpenAI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | February 11, 2026 | November 13, 2025 |
| Context window | 205K | 400K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.00 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Coding index | 59.7 | 50.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.63 | $0.892 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GLM 5 better than GPT-5.1-Codex for coding?
Pick GLM 5 for coding: it scores 59.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 50.5 for GPT-5.1-Codex. Pick GPT-5.1-Codex when the context window is larger, 400K against 205K tokens, or when what matters is LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or Terminal-Bench, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GLM 5 or GPT-5.1-Codex?
GLM 5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1-Codex costs $1.25 and $10.00. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, GLM 5 costs $0.63 and GPT-5.1-Codex $0.892.
Which has the bigger context window, GLM 5 or GPT-5.1-Codex?
GPT-5.1-Codex, with 400K tokens against 205K.
How many benchmarks is the GLM 5 vs GPT-5.1-Codex comparison based on?
21 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GLM 5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and GPT-5.1-Codex's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.