Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.1 vs GLM-5V-Turbo

DeepSeek-V3.1 and GLM-5V-Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.8 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.1 DeepSeek

42.8

Rank #108 Confirmed

GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai (Zhipu)

43.8

Rank #84 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.1 scores higher in 1 category and GLM-5V-Turbo in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 44.0 to 36.3.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.95 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
  • GLM-5V-Turbo accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 164K.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.1 and GLM-5V-Turbo specifications
DeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
ProviderDeepSeekZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index42.843.8
Released2025-08-212026-04-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window164K200K
Max output8K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$0.95$4
Results tracked2719

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 40.3 (#144), GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Coding14171466
LMArena WebDev—1401
WeirdML38.4%—

Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 27.9 (#110), GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts14171443
SimpleBench40%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.2%—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA24.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index139.92—
ForecastBench58—

Math Too close to call

DeepSeek-V3.1: 38.9 (#122), GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Math14201441

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 43.7 (#90), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Expert14051452
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1: —, GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Vision—1264
LMArena Document—1416

Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 51.6 (#106), GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Non-English14001420
LMArena Chinese14691488
LMArena French14471444
LMArena German14111423
LMArena Korean13371396
LMArena Russian14051431
LMArena Spanish14311450
LMArena Japanese1378—

Instruction Following GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 73.9 (#110), GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following14001423

Long Context GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 36.3 (#232), GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Longer Query14221438
Fiction.LiveBench52.8%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 60.3 (#98), GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1GLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Text14201437
LMArena Creative Writing14011416
LMArena Multi-Turn14081432
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1436—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.1 better than GLM-5V-Turbo?

DeepSeek-V3.1 and GLM-5V-Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.8 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3.1 or GLM-5V-Turbo?

DeepSeek-V3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.95 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.

Is DeepSeek-V3.1 or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?

GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 40.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5V-Turbo does, with 200K tokens against 164K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.1 and GLM-5V-Turbo share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.1 has 27 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.

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