Model comparison

GLM-4.5 vs Llama 4 Maverick

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.5 leads 57.5 to 38.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 54.2% for GLM-4.5 and 21% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
  • GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5 and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Meta
Noometry Index42.030.9
Released2025-07-272025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K128K
Max output98K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$0.65
Results tracked2754

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)54.2%21%
WeirdML40.6%24.5%
LMArena Coding14341302
ALE-Bench344.82172.97
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%55.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14291281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.2
ForecastBench—57.5

Math GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Math14271299
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
Humanity's Last Exam8.3%5.7%
Confabulations11.3%22.6%
LMArena Expert14331259
GPQA Diamond—67%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14171269
LMArena Chinese14651277
LMArena French14181259
LMArena German14071291
LMArena Japanese14151207
LMArena Korean13801203
LMArena Russian14141286
LMArena Spanish14541293

Instruction Following GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14041267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%46.2%
LMArena Longer Query14121280

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14301287
LMArena Creative Writing13951267
Short-Story Creative Writing73.4%62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1343860
LMArena Multi-Turn14151289
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is GLM-4.5 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.5 does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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