Claude 4 Sonnet vs GLM 5
Head to head on 19 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| GLM 5 Zai | 96.7% | 62.9% | 1601elo | 70.9 | 87.8% | 29.3% | 72.3% | 71.2% | 73.6% | 67.9% | 55.3% | 77.5% | 83.5% | 69.1% | 46.2% | 72.8% | 70.0% | 43.2% | 98.2% | - | - | - | 7.9% | - | 24.7% | 16.4% | - | 97.9 | 82.7% | 48395 | - | - | 65.2% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 73.3 | - | 69.7% | - | 61.12 | - | 23.4% | - | - | 61.2% |
| Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | 74.3% | 54.7% | 1483elo | 58.4 | 77.7% | 10.7% | 54.7% | 64.8% | 77.5% | 54.6% | 44.3% | 72.9% | 70.5% | 69.0% | 40.0% | 74.6% | 69.6% | 31.1% | 64.6% | 77.3% | 22.9% | 47.8% | - | 19.8% | - | - | 67.5% | - | - | - | 65.5% | 99.1% | - | 33.9% | 72.4% | 86.7% | 84.2% | 62.5% | 43.9% | 6.18 | 6.18 | 35.0% | - | 58.3% | - | 35.6% | - | 0.59 | - | 84.0% | 84.0% | 59.6% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic | GLM 5 Zai |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude 4 Sonnet is an AI model from Anthropic. | GLM-5 is an AI model from Zai, released with open weights. |
| Family | Claude | Glm |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | open |
| License | proprietary | mit |
| Released | 22 May 2025 | 11 Feb 2026 |
| Context | 200,000 | 204,800 |
| Input $/1M | - | $1.00 |
| Output $/1M | - | $3.20 |
| Cache read $/1M | - | $0.200 |
| Cache write $/1M | - | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image | text |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Zai |
| Reported scores | GPQA Diamond87.8% Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)29.3% (AA) IFBench72.3% (AA) SciCode46.2% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)98.2% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude 4 Sonnet or GLM 5 better?
- Across the 19 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, GLM 5 leads on 17 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude 4 Sonnet and GLM 5 compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude 4 Sonnet scores 77.7% and GLM 5 scores 87.8% on GPQA Diamond.
- When were Claude 4 Sonnet and GLM 5 released?
- Claude 4 Sonnet was released 22 May 2025 by Anthropic. GLM 5 was released 11 Feb 2026 by Zai.
Other head-to-heads
56Claude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Mini29 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.528 shared evalsGLM 5 vs Kimi K2.527 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.526 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-525 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5 Nano25 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.225 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro25 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs GLM 524 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-5.224 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs GLM 524 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Kimi K2.524 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Grok 4.1 Fast24 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs GLM 524 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GLM 524 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.523 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview23 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-5 Mini22 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.822 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Fable 522 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-5.422 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.622 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GLM 4.722 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-5.422 shared evalsGemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs GLM 521 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Opus 4.721 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3.221 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs gpt-oss-120b21 shared evalsGLM 5 vs Grok 4.1 Fast21 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-5.520 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs GLM 520 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.620 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GLM 5.120 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4o20 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 520 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GLM 5.120 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs GLM 520 shared evalsGLM 5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus20 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Mini19 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-5 Nano19 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.119 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Plus19 shared evalsGLM 5 vs gpt-oss-120b19 shared evalsGLM 4.7 vs GLM 519 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4o-mini18 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs GLM 518 shared evalsGemini 2.5 Pro vs GLM 518 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Nano16 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-515 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-4o15 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-4.1 Mini12 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-4.112 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-4o-mini12 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-4.1 Nano12 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-6 Astra8 shared evalsGLM 5 vs GPT-6 Astra7 shared evals
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