# Claude Sonnet 5 vs GLM-5

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 5 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 Sonnet 5 leads overall 66.99 to 54.4.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 64.6 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 37.4 for GLM-5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 63.2% and 55.1%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Sonnet 5 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 66.99 | 54.4 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 36 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 64.6 (Supported · #12/117)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 37.4 (Estimated · #58/117)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 16% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 57.7% | 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 |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.99% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #19/142)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38.9 (Estimated · #63/142)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% | 77.8% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | 55.1% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 78.3% | 73.3% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multimodal | 28.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 61.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | 34.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | 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 Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 78.4 (#15/50)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 88.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 64.5 (Supported · #26/168)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 47.2 (Estimated · #73/168)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 57.4% | 50.4% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 31.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)

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

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#32/124)

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

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 93.3% | 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 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 16.434% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 2.100% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

Claude Sonnet 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 64.6 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 37.4 for GLM-5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 5 currently has 26 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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