Noometry

Model comparison

GLM-4.5 vs Qwen3.5 Plus

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 39.0.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.042.9
Released2025-07-272026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K1M
Max output98K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$2.40
Results tracked2715

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench344.82621.92
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)54.2%—
WeirdML40.6%—
LMArena Coding1434—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1429—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.78

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1427—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
Humanity's Last Exam8.3%—
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Confabulations11.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1433—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1417—
LMArena Chinese1465—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1407—
LMArena Japanese1415—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1414—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1404—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1412—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1430—
LMArena Creative Writing1395—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1343—
LMArena Multi-Turn1415—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5 better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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