GLM 5V Turbo vs Kimi K2 0905
GLM 5V Turbo leads Kimi K2 0905 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 23.5 to 15.3, and Kimi K2 0905 costs 1.6x less per output token ($2.50 vs $4.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 9 benchmarks have a result for both.
GLM 5V Turbo or Kimi K2 0905: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 9
- GLM 5V Turbo only
- 56
- Kimi K2 0905 only
- 8
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 23.5 against 15.3.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 1230 against 1088.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K2 0905
Kimi K2 0905 takes 262K tokens against 203K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0905
GLM 5V Turbo $0.0032, Kimi K2 0905 $0.0019 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GLM 5V Turbo not benchmarked, Kimi K2 0905 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 25.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: GLM 5V Turbo 98.5% against Kimi K2 0905 73.4%, 25.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GLM 5V Turbo $4.00 against Kimi K2 0905 $2.50 per million output tokens, 1.6x apart.
- Context window
- GLM 5V Turbo takes 203K tokens, Kimi K2 0905 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 5V Turbo | Bars | Kimi K2 0905 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 9 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1402 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 61.0% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 32.6% | 23.5% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 36.7% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 267.1 | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1466 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1460 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1386 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1356 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1425 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.5 | 15.3 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | 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% | 73.4% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | 76.7% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 17.1% | 6.4% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1443 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1453 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1456 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1286 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1273 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 52.2% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 57.3 | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 57.3% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1442 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1447 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 81.9% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1448 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1433 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1436 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1435 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1230 | 1088 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1210 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1218 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1202 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1208 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1228 | 1098 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1151 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1117 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo 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 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 61.1% | 41.7% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 70.3% | 53.0% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 66.7% | Only Kimi K2 0905 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1437 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1423 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1417 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1454 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1420 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1491 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1422 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1397 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1443 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1452 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1432 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1432 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1431 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1438 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1420 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1407 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1274 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1329 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1270 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1268 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1264 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1241 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1252 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo 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 | GLM 5V Turbo | Kimi K2 0905 | 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
Kimi K2 0905 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2 0905 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2 0905 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 | MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0905 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Z.ai | Moonshot AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | September 4, 2025 |
| Context window | 203K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.20 | $0.60 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.00 | $2.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GLM 5V Turbo better than Kimi K2 0905 for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, GLM 5V Turbo or Kimi K2 0905?
GLM 5V Turbo costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 0905 costs $0.60 and $2.50. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GLM 5V Turbo or Kimi K2 0905?
Kimi K2 0905, with 262K tokens against 203K.
How many benchmarks is the GLM 5V Turbo vs Kimi K2 0905 comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GLM 5V Turbo's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Kimi K2 0905's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.