# Claude Opus 4.6 vs GLM-5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-6-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 18
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.6 leads overall 62.39 to 54.84.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 52.4 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 88.6 for GLM-5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SuperGPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 95% and 66.8%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Opus 4.6 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 62.39 | 54.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 45.7 (Supported · #57/128)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 41.5 (Estimated · #63/128)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | 56.2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| BrowseComp | 83.7% | 62% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 70.4% | 57.7% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| DeepSearchQA | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 66.6% | 43.2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | 50.99% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| ResearchClawBench | 19.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.1% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 31.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 46.1 (Supported · #52/150)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38 (Estimated · #70/150)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% | 77.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 75.6% | 72.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.4% | 55.1% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 65.3% | 62.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| React Native Evals | 84.1% | 74.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% | 56.2% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 57.57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 26.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 71.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 70.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 74.5 (#25/54)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 77.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 59 (Estimated · #52/184)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #79/184)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.3% | 86% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 86.0% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 66.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | 85.7% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 89.1% | 85.8% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| HLE | 53% | 30.5% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| HLE w/o tools | 40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 14.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/17)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 52.4 (#87/148)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.6 (#35/148)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.6 public-lane score: 69.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 83 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 99.8% | 93.3% | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 65.965% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 26.829% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.6 or GLM-5?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 52.4 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 88.6 for GLM-5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.6 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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