Seed 1.6 vs GLM-4.5

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Seed 1.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 36. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed 1.6's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.6 against 41. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 36.

Seed 1.6 is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-4.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Seed 1.6 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GLM-4.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

62.3

GLM-4.5

31.3

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
28
67
BrowseComp
37
58
OSWorld-Verified
31

Coding

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

42.4

GLM-4.5

14.4

64
HumanEval
29
46
SWE-bench Verified
18
38
LiveCodeBench
13
46
SWE-bench Pro
15

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

79.6

GLM-4.5

41

80
MMMU-Pro
36
79
OfficeQA Pro
47

Reasoning

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

74.5

GLM-4.5

43.8

69
SimpleQA
35
69
MuSR
33
86
BBH
61
77
LongBench v2
48
78
MRCRv2
52

Knowledge

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

56.4

GLM-4.5

32

73
MMLU
37
72
GPQA
36
70
SuperGPQA
34
68
OpenBookQA
32
75
MMLU-Pro
51
11
HLE
3
68
FrontierScience
40

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

87

GLM-4.5

68

87
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

83.4

GLM-4.5

58.1

88
MGSM
60
81
MMLU-ProX
57

Mathematics

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

75.9

GLM-4.5

45.5

72
AIME 2023
37
74
AIME 2024
39
73
AIME 2025
38
68
HMMT Feb 2023
33
70
HMMT Feb 2024
35
69
HMMT Feb 2025
34
71
BRUMO 2025
36
82
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 is ahead overall, 65 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 36.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.4 versus 32. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.4 versus 14.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 45.5. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 43.8. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 31.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 41. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 or GLM-4.5?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 58.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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