# GLM-5 vs LongCat-2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and LongCat-2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-longcat-2-5
- Last updated: November 9, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-2.5 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 54.45 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 31.1% and 83.1%.
- LongCat-2.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- LongCat-2.5 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Meituan |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Hybrid |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 54.45 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 22 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 43.1 (Estimated · #67/132)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 62% | 91.9% | LongCat-2.5 |
| HLE w/ tools | 50.4% | 63.1% | LongCat-2.5 |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 78.3% | LongCat-2.5 |
| 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% | 83.1% | LongCat-2.5 |
| 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 | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Coming soon | 38.50% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 38.5% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |
| SpreadsheetBench 2 | Coming soon | 34.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.8 (Estimated · #74/158)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 35.9% | 60.5% | LongCat-2.5 |
| 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 | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | Coming soon | 25.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 64.6% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 58.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 42.4 (Supported · #75/157)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | 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
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 78.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 96.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 49.5 (Estimated · #82/179)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | 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 | 30.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierScience | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/17)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.6 (#38/157)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 72.5 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)
- LongCat-2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | LongCat-2.5 | 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 |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or LongCat-2.5?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does LongCat-2.5 cover on BenchLM?

LongCat-2.5 currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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