Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs GLM-4.5V

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.8

Rank #158 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and GLM-4.5V in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 27.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 83.6% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 59.8% for GLM-4.5V.
  • GLM-4.5V is cheaper at $0.60 / $1.80 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 64K.
  • GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-4.5V specifications
Claude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index58.239.8
Released2026-02-042025-08-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M64K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.80
Results tracked6815

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Coding15361347
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), GLM-4.5V: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%59.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271334
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Expert15461353
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Vision13161154
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Non-English14891303
LMArena Chinese15511337
LMArena Russian14971298
LMArena Spanish15101336
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Instruction Following15231311

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Longer Query15201304
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6GLM-4.5V
LMArena Text15031333
LMArena Creative Writing15051295
LMArena Multi-Turn15131332
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than GLM-4.5V?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or GLM-4.5V?

GLM-4.5V is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or GLM-4.5V better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-4.5V share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5V has 15.

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