GLM 5V Turbo vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Updated October 21, 2026. 53 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 5V Turbo for coding: it scores 28.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.2 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when the context window is larger, 262K against 203K tokens, or when what matters is Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or LMArena Text: legal and government, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 53
- GLM 5V Turbo only
- 12
- Mistral Medium 3.5 only
- 27
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo scores 28.8 against 9.2.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 23.5 against 14.2.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 7.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 34.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 75.3%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo leads, 1230 against 1142.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 takes 262K tokens against 203K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo $0.0032, Mistral Medium 3.5 $0.0053 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has the number, $6.02.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GLM 5V Turbo 28.8 from 1 benchmark, Mistral Medium 3.5 9.2 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Web design, 14.9 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: SVG: GLM 5V Turbo 1151 against Mistral Medium 3.5 949, 25.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GLM 5V Turbo $4.00 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 1.9x apart.
- Context window
- GLM 5V Turbo takes 203K tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 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 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 7 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 3 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 21 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 48 | 5 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index51
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1402 | 1264 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 46.9 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.4% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 40.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 32.6% | 33.3% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 764.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1466 | 1460 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1460 | 1458 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1386 | 1254 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1356 | 1308 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1425 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.5 | 14.2 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 141.4 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 7.0 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| 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 | 1120 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1152 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 32.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.5% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.5% | 94.2% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 34.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | 74.8% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 17.1% | 13.8% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1443 | 1436 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1453 | 1432 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1456 | 1445 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1286 | 1254 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1273 | 1230 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | Not measured | 9.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1442 | 1431 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1447 | 1440 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 75.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.0% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1448 | 1428 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1433 | 1409 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1436 | 1437 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1435 | 1426 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1230 | 1142 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1213 | 1079 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1219 | 1079 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1202 | 1120 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1209 | 1061 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1228 | 1122 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1151 | 949 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1118 | 1062 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index213
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.6% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.7% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| IFBench | 61.1% | 68.8% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 70.3% | 69.3% | GLM 5V Turbo |
| DTBench | Not measured | 75.5% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 26.1% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 26.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1421 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1423 | 1415 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1417 | 1374 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | 1222 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: English | 1454 | 1433 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1420 | 1404 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1491 | 1444 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: German | 1422 | 1453 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1397 | 1384 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: French | 1443 | 1448 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1452 | 1411 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1432 | 1395 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1432 | 1430 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1431 | 1423 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1438 | 1415 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1420 | 1384 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1407 | 1382 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1274 | 1240 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1329 | 1244 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1270 | 1233 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1268 | 1216 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| 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 | 1198 | GLM 5V Turbo |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | Not measured | Only GLM 5V Turbo measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GLM 5V Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 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 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Z.ai | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | April 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 203K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.20 | $1.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.00 | $7.50 |
| Coding index | 28.8 | 9.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $6.02 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GLM 5V Turbo better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?
Pick GLM 5V Turbo for coding: it scores 28.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.2 for Mistral Medium 3.5. Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when the context window is larger, 262K against 203K tokens, or when what matters is Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or LMArena Text: legal and government, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GLM 5V Turbo or Mistral Medium 3.5?
GLM 5V Turbo costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Medium 3.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GLM 5V Turbo or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5, with 262K tokens against 203K.
How many benchmarks is the GLM 5V Turbo vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?
53 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GLM 5V Turbo's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.