Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GLM-4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 41.4 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6 costs 6.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and GLM-4.6 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 48.4 to 40.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 46.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 24.5% for GLM-4.6.
- GLM-4.6 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
- GLM-4.6 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 200K.
- GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 44.1 | 41.4 |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2025-09-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 205K |
| Max output | 64K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | $0.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 73 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 71.4% | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1393 | 1340 |
| SciCode | 44.7% | 38.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1489 | 1449 |
| ALE-Bench | 796.15 | 340.82 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.3% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67% | — |
| GSO | 14.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 47.7% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 46.5% | 24.5% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 73.2% | 72.4% |
| GDPval | 42.5% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 2.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 72% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 25.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 72.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 84.9% | — |
| Cybench | 60% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 52.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 62.9% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1159 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 67.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,839 | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | 47.4% |
| CritPt | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1462 | 1440 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 13.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 54.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 37.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 63.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 6% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 2.4% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 17% | — |
| DTBench | 83.2% | — |
| LMCA | 38.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.84 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.9 | — |
Math GLM-4.6 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1449 | 1432 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 15.2% | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | 2.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 23.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 19% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.7% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | 9.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1482 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 82.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 13.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 68.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), GLM-4.6: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| VPCT | 39.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1450 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1426 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1459 | 1499 |
| LMArena French | 1458 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1427 | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1390 | 1393 |
| LMArena Korean | 1403 | 1400 |
| LMArena Russian | 1437 | 1419 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1457 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1459 | 1410 |
| IFEval | 85% | — |
Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1476 | 1422 |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1439 | 1440 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1442 | 1411 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1678 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1465 | 1427 |
| WildBench | 85.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than GLM-4.6?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 41.4 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6 costs 6.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or GLM-4.6?
GLM-4.6 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 lists at $3 and $15.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or GLM-4.6 better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-4.6 does, with 205K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GLM-4.6 share?
29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.