GLM-5V-Turbo vs Qwen3.5-27B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

GLM-5V-Turbo· Qwen3.5-27B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5V-Turbo only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 70 to 58. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-5V-Turbo is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.20 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-27B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-5V-Turbo 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. Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for GLM-5V-Turbo.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$1.20 / $4.00Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K262K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboQwen3.5-27B
AgenticGLM-5V-Turbo wins
BrowseComp51.9%61%
OSWorld-Verified62.3%56.2%
BrowseComp-VL51.9%
OSWorld62.3%
AndroidWorld75.7%
WebVoyager88.5%
Terminal-Bench 2.041.6%
Tau2-Telecom79%
Coding
SWE-bench Verified72.4%
LiveCodeBench80.7%
Multimodal & Grounded
Design2Code94.8%
Flame-VLM-Code93.8%
Vision2Web31.0%
ImageMining30.7%
MMSearch72.9%
MMSearch-Plus30.0%
SimpleVQA78.2%
Facts-VLM58.6%
V*89.0%
MMMU-Pro75%
Reasoning
LongBench v260.6%
Knowledge
MMLU-Pro86.1%
SuperGPQA65.6%
GPQA85.5%
Instruction Following
IFEval95%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX82.2%
Mathematics
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Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, GLM-5V-Turbo or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B is ahead overall, 70 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BrowseComp, where the scores are 51.9% and 61%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-5V-Turbo or Qwen3.5-27B?

GLM-5V-Turbo has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58 versus 51.6. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 1, 2026

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