# GLM-5 vs Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-ternary-bonsai-2-27b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ternary Bonsai 2 27B 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 61.47 to 50.78.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 52.1 for GLM-5 and 73.9 for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified in Coding, with scores of 77.8% and 60.8%.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Prism ML |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 61.47 | 50.78 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 21 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51 (Estimated · #48/154)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #59/154)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | 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 |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 74.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56 (Estimated · #39/154)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #64/154)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 60.8% | GLM-5 |
| 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 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 90.1% | Coming soon |
| BigCodeBench | Coming soon | 58.1% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv (overall) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| A-OKVQA | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.6 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 56.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 73.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Estimated · #58/184)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #78/184)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 85.8% | GLM-5 |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 85.8% | GLM-5 |
| 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 |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#32/124)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 71 (#64/124)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 91.3% | GLM-5 |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 74% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 76.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 95.8% | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B |
| 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 |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 98.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or Ternary Bonsai 2 27B?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 52.1 for GLM-5 and 73.9 for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Ternary Bonsai 2 27B cover on BenchLM?

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B currently has 21 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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