GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-5
GLM 5V Turbo leads GPT-5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 23.5 to 23.0, and GLM 5V Turbo costs 2.5x less per output token ($4.00 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 54 benchmarks have a result for both.
GLM 5V Turbo or GPT-5: which to pick
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; GLM 5V Turbo has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GLM 5V Turbo for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($4.00 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 54
- GLM 5V Turbo only
- 11
- GPT-5 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
No call
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 23.5 against 23.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 85.6%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 has a AIME result, 93.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 1230 against 1184.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5
GPT-5 takes 400K tokens against 203K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo $0.0032, GPT-5 $0.0063 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5 has the number, $0.39.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GLM 5V Turbo not benchmarked, GPT-5 38.8 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 12.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: 3D: GLM 5V Turbo 1208 against GPT-5 1055, 19.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GLM 5V Turbo $4.00 against GPT-5 $10.00 per million output tokens, 2.5x apart.
- Context window
- GLM 5V Turbo takes 203K tokens, GPT-5 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 5V Turbo | Bars | GPT-5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 4 | 3 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 5 | 3 | ||
| General | 23 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 42 | 12 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index23
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 88.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 74.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1402 | 1418 | GPT-5 |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 37.8 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.9% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 84.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 32.6% | 37.9% | GPT-5 |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 49.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 6.9% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 60.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 807.6 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1466 | 1436 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1460 | 1420 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1386 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1356 | 1427 | GPT-5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1425 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 0.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.5 | 23.0 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 150.0 | Only GPT-5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1124 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1149 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1134 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1267 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 957 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1102 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1070 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1127 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.5% | 86.5% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 69.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | Not measured | 1.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GDPval | Not measured | 34.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 32.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | Not measured | 49.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | Not measured | 80.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index43
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 85.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | 85.4% | GPT-5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 17.1% | 28.5% | GPT-5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 86.2% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 65.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 9.9% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 56.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 36.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 23.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 12.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 66.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1443 | 1415 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1453 | 1419 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1456 | 1419 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1286 | 1252 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1273 | 1278 | GPT-5 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 72.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 93.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 94.3 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 94.3% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 91.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 55.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 22.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 18.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 98.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1442 | 1407 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1447 | 1405 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 86.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.3% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 49.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 87.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 50.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 81.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1448 | 1416 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1433 | 1413 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1436 | 1431 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1435 | 1400 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | Not measured | 56.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index53
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1230 | 1184 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1210 | 1177 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1218 | 1185 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1202 | 1221 | GPT-5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1208 | 1055 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1228 | 1167 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1151 | 1188 | GPT-5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1117 | 1141 | GPT-5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index233
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| IFBench | 61.1% | 73.1% | GPT-5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 70.3% | 78.2% | GPT-5 |
| DTBench | Not measured | 90.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 40.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 97.2% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1406 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1423 | 1388 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1417 | 1365 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | 1232 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: English | 1454 | 1409 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1420 | 1397 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1491 | 1422 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: German | 1422 | 1416 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1409 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1397 | 1360 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: French | 1443 | 1409 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1452 | 1399 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1432 | 1407 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1432 | 1431 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1431 | 1426 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1438 | 1399 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1420 | 1384 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1407 | 1379 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1274 | 1231 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1329 | 1267 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1270 | 1246 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1268 | 1219 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1264 | 1212 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1241 | 1263 | GPT-5 |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1252 | 1210 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | GPT-5 | 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 5V Turbo costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GLM 5V Turbo costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GLM 5V Turbo 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 5V Turbo | OpenAI GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Z.ai | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | August 7, 2025 |
| Context window | 203K | 400K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.20 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.00 | $10.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 38.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.39 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GLM 5V Turbo better than GPT-5 for coding?
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; GLM 5V Turbo has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GLM 5V Turbo for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($4.00 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GLM 5V Turbo or GPT-5?
GLM 5V Turbo costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens; GPT-5 costs $1.25 and $10.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GLM 5V Turbo or GPT-5?
GPT-5, with 400K tokens against 203K.
How many benchmarks is the GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-5 comparison based on?
54 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GLM 5V Turbo's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and GPT-5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.