# GLM-5 vs GPT-5.4

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and GPT-5.4 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 13
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5.4 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

- GPT-5.4 leads overall 66.7 to 54.84.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 50.4 for GLM-5 and 69.1 for GPT-5.4.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 31.1% and 70.6%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-5.4 also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1.05M |
| Overall Score | 54.84 | 66.7 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 42 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $2.50 / $15.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 41.5 (Estimated · #63/128)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 52.1 (Supported · #44/128)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 75.1% | GPT-5.4 |
| BrowseComp | 62% | 82.7% | GPT-5.4 |
| HLE w/ tools | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 60.3% | GPT-5.4 |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 38% | 54.6% | GPT-5.4 |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | 70.6% | GPT-5.4 |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | 79.0% | GPT-5.4 |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | 64.89% | GPT-5.4 |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 75% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 98.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 15.3% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 38.9% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 6.0% | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | Coming soon | 11% | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38 (Estimated · #70/150)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 47.7 (Supported · #48/150)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 57.7% | GPT-5.4 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 35.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | 85.3% | GPT-5.4 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 75.1% | GPT-5.4 |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 67.42% | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | Coming soon | 19.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 70.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 64.2 (#23/28)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.2% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 93.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 73.1 (#30/54)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 61.1% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #79/184)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 69.1 (Supported · #20/184)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 92.8% | GPT-5.4 |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 92.8% | GPT-5.4 |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.5% | 52.1% | GPT-5.4 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 40.1% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 59.6% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | Coming soon | 48.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/17)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.6 (#35/148)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 90.7 (#23/148)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 83 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 82 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 78.596% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 49.000% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and GPT-5.4?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 50.4 for GLM-5 and 69.1 for GPT-5.4.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.4 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.4 currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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