# GLM-5 vs Grok 4.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Grok 4.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-grok-4-5
- Last updated: October 7, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: GLM-5 and Grok 4.5 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- GLM-5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Grok 4.5 has the larger published context window at 500K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | xAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 500K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 53.56 | 63.97 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 17 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $2.00 / $6.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.4 (Estimated · #64/122)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.6 (Supported · #29/122)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 15.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 53% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.2 (Estimated · #67/146)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.7 (Supported · #27/146)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 64.7% | Grok 4.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | 78% | Grok 4.5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | Coming soon | 23.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 50.4 (#28/28)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.3% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 85.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 79.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.5 (Estimated · #75/174)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 67 (Supported · #19/174)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/16)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#31/125)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Grok 4.5 | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between GLM-5 and Grok 4.5?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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