Claude Opus 4.6 vs GLM 5
Head to head on 24 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 67.0% | 1804elo | 77.7 | 40.7% | 84.0% | 19.1% | 44.6% | 84.9% | 88771 | 78.8% | 78.2% | 69.9% | 63.3% | 83.3% | 89.3% | 88.7% | 78.5% | 45.7% | 72.0% | 75.6% | 76.0% | 48.5% | 57.6% | 84.8% | 99.79 | 56.1% | 1.5 | 2.08 | 71.0% | - | 1223elo | - | - | 58 | 48.2% | 86.7% | 68.5% | 93 | 50.0% | 51.6% | 44.5 | - | - | 80.6 | 66.5% |
| GLM 5 Zai | 62.9% | 1598elo | 70.9 | 16.4% | 66.6% | 7.6% | 55.2% | 82.7% | 48395 | 71.2% | 73.6% | 67.9% | 55.3% | 77.5% | 83.5% | 69.1% | 65.2% | 38.3% | 69.7% | 72.8% | 70.0% | 39.4% | 23.4% | 97.4% | - | - | - | - | - | 7.9% | - | 24.7% | 97.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 73.3 | 61.12 | - | 56.4% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | GLM 5 Zai |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Opus 4.6 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 | 5 Feb 2026 | 11 Feb 2026 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 204,800 |
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $1.00 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $3.20 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.500 | $0.120 |
| Cache write $/1M | $6.250 | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | text |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Zai |
| Reported scores | GPQA Diamond84.0% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)19.1% (AA) SciCode45.7% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)84.8% (AA) Terminal-Bench (Hard)48.5% (AA) | GPQA Diamond66.6% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)7.6% (AA) IFBench55.2% (AA) SciCode38.3% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)97.4% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude Opus 4.6 or GLM 5 better?
- Across the 24 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 22 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM 5 compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude Opus 4.6 scores 84.0% and GLM 5 scores 66.6% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or GLM 5?
- GLM 5 is cheaper at $3.20 per million output tokens against $25.00 for Claude Opus 4.6 - about 7.8x.
- When were Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM 5 released?
- Claude Opus 4.6 was released 5 Feb 2026 by Anthropic. GLM 5 was released 11 Feb 2026 by Zai.
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