# GLM-5 vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B 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 56.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 87.2 for GLM-5 and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 86% and 71%.
- ZAYA1-8B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GLM-5 also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 61.47 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 11 |
| 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)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 46.1 (Estimated · #82/154)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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 |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56 (Estimated · #39/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 65.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 43.6 (Estimated · #120/184)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 71% | GLM-5 |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 71.0% | GLM-5 |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | 74.2% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#32/124)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 23.5 (#121/124)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 85.6% | GLM-5 |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 89.1% | GLM-5 |
| 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% | 71.6% | GLM-5 |
| 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 |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or ZAYA1-8B?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and ZAYA1-8B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 87.2 for GLM-5 and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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