# GLM-5 vs Seed 1.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Seed 1.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-seed-1-6
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for GLM-5 and Seed 1.6.

## Summary

- GLM-5 and Seed 1.6 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | ByteDance |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 61.45 | 48.59 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 0 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51.1 (Estimated · #48/152)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.3 (Estimated · #39/151)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | 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 |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.2 (Estimated · #58/182)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.5 (#31/121)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)
- Seed 1.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Seed 1.6 | 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

### Can I compare GLM-5 and Seed 1.6 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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