# GLM-5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol 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-5.6 Sol leads overall 78.49 to 54.45.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 56.5 for GLM-5 and 96.8 for GPT-5.6 Sol.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) in Mathematics, with scores of 2.100% and 83.000%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-5.6 Sol also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1.05M |
| Overall Score | 54.45 | 78.49 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 37 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $4.00 / $20.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 37.2 (Estimated · #49/105)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 69.6 (Supported · #7/105)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 58% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | 84.5% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 92.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 62.6% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 33.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | Coming soon | 26% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.3 (Estimated · #58/135)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 71.6 (Supported · #6/135)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 64.6% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 42 fixes | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 96.2% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | Coming soon | 41.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.2 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 72.1 (#8/19)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 7.8% | Coming soon |
| GeneBench-Pro | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 87.6 (#5/50)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 83% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 47.1 (Estimated · #68/158)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 78.8 (Supported · #7/158)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 94.6% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 94.6% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| 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 | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | Coming soon | 60.5% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 33.1% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 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: 87.2 (#32/124)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 87.7 (#28/124)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)
- GPT-5.6 Sol public-lane score: 96.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 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) | 16.434% | 89.000% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | 83.000% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierMath (legacy) | Coming soon | 89% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and GPT-5.6 Sol?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 56.5 for GLM-5 and 96.8 for GPT-5.6 Sol.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.6 Sol cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.6 Sol currently has 37 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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