# Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs GLM-5.2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and GLM-5.2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-4-1-opus-thinking-vs-glm-5-2
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and GLM-5.2.

## Summary

- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and GLM-5.2 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 31.67 | 68.19 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 25 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $1.40 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 58.5 (Supported · #29/153)

| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 20.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #19/152)

| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 62.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | Coming soon | 63.7% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | Coming soon | 55.0% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 69.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: 60 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: 73.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 20.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: 36 (Estimated · #155/183)
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #35/183)

| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 91.2% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 91.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 54.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: 66.6 (#67/123)
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 89.8 (#22/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 80.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | GLM-5.2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 99.2% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.4% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 91.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and GLM-5.2 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs Claude 4.1 Opus](/compare/claude-4-1-opus-vs-claude-4-1-opus-thinking)
- [GLM-5.2 vs Claude 4.1 Opus](/compare/claude-4-1-opus-vs-glm-5-2)
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- [GLM-5.2 vs GLM-5.3](/compare/glm-5-2-vs-glm-5-3)

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