Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs GLM-5

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

46.1

Rank #66 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5 leads 46.4 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 80% for GLM-5.
  • GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGLM-5
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index29.046.1
Released2024-02-292026-02-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3045

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), GLM-5: 49.0 (#52)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
WeirdML10.2%48.2%
LMArena Coding12231461
SWE-bench Verified—72.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1434
SWE-bench Multilingual—69.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—765.62
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, GLM-5: 31.1 (#71)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
Terminal-Bench—52.4%
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—9.8%
τ²-bench Retail—73.7%
τ²-bench Telecom—86.8%
Vending-Bench 2—4,432

Reasoning GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), GLM-5: 27.6 (#116)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Hard Prompts11971452
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7145.83
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench—53.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—75%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
ARC-AGI-1—44.7%
Chess Puzzles—10%
DTBench53.6%—
ForecastBench—61
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), GLM-5: 46.4 (#71)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%80%
LMArena Math12131440
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—65.7%
MATH Level 518.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—16.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), GLM-5: 52.3 (#64)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
GPQA Diamond40.6%87.8%
LMArena Expert11731454
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.1%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), GLM-5: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), GLM-5: 53.7 (#58)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Non-English12051430
LMArena Chinese11891511
LMArena French12291455
LMArena German12041445
LMArena Japanese11311416
LMArena Korean11281423
LMArena Russian12271436
LMArena Spanish12041454

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), GLM-5: 75.2 (#67)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Instruction Following11991428

Long Context GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), GLM-5: 44.7 (#60)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Longer Query12111446
CL-bench—18.7%

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), GLM-5: 66.0 (#38)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGLM-5
LMArena Text12181446
LMArena Creative Writing11861439
LMArena Multi-Turn12271456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1601

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GLM-5?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GLM-5 better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GLM-5 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.

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