Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs GLM-4.6V

Claude Opus 4.1 and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.0 vs 41.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.3

Rank #137 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and GLM-4.6V in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where GLM-4.6V leads 34.8 to 26.8.
  • GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Claude Opus 4.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and GLM-4.6V specifications
Claude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index41.041.3
Released2025-08-052025-12-08
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K128K
Max output32K33K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$75$0.90
Results tracked4812

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Coding14791390
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), GLM-4.6V: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Hard Prompts14431368
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), GLM-4.6V: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Expert14391371
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal GLM-4.6V leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Vision—1164
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Non-English14051359
LMArena Chinese14271425
LMArena Russian14221340
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Instruction Following14351352

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Longer Query14551358

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1GLM-4.6V
LMArena Text14191377
LMArena Creative Writing14121347
LMArena Multi-Turn14441360
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than GLM-4.6V?

Claude Opus 4.1 and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.0 vs 41.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or GLM-4.6V better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and GLM-4.6V share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.

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