# GLM-5 vs Inkling

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-inkling
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

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

## Summary

- GLM-5 leads overall 54.59 to 52.13.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 83 for GLM-5 and 58.3 for Inkling.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 31.1% and 74.1%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Inkling also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Inkling |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Hybrid |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 54.59 | 52.13 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $1.87 / $4.68 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 40.9 (Estimated · #60/124)
- Inkling public-lane score: 36.2 (Supported · #72/124)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 62% | 77.1% | Inkling |
| HLE w/ tools | 50.4% | 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% | 74.1% | Inkling |
| 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 2.1 | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 47.6% | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | Coming soon | 37.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38.4 (Estimated · #68/149)
- Inkling public-lane score: 34 (Supported · #80/149)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 77.6% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 54.3% | GLM-5 |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 4.1% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 70.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Inkling public-lane score: 79 (#14/29)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 67.5 (#35/54)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 82% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50.5 (Estimated · #78/181)
- Inkling public-lane score: 54.5 (Supported · #62/181)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 87.9% | Inkling |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 87.9% | Inkling |
| 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% | 46% | Inkling |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 30% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

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

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | 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 (#34/128)
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#35/128)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 83 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 97.1% | Inkling |
| 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 | 33.333% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 4.878% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or Inkling?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 83 for GLM-5 and 58.3 for Inkling.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Inkling cover on BenchLM?

Inkling currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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