Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.8

Rank #158 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 37.4.
  • GLM-4.5V is cheaper at $0.60 / $1.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 64K.
  • GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and GPT-5.4 specifications
GLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index39.859.4
Released2025-08-112026-03-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window64K1.05M
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$15
Results tracked1568

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Coding13471497
SWE-bench Verified—76.9%
DeepSWE—51.8%
LMArena WebDev—1465
SciCode—56.6%
GSO—31.4%
WeirdML—77.7%
MirrorCode—15.6%
ALE-Bench—1,607
AlgoTune—1.85

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
Terminal-Bench—81.8%
APEX-Agents—52.4%
τ²-bench Banking—39.4%
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
PostTrainBench—19%
GBAEval—45.1%
LMArena Search—1197
METR Time Horizons—74.3%
Vending-Bench 2—6,144

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%63.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13341485
ARC-AGI-2—74%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.3%
ARC-AGI-1—93.7%
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—44%
EnigmaEval—16%
Thematic Generalization—80%
EBR-Bench—25.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—37%
DTBench—94.4%
LMCA—52%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.81
ForecastBench—59.5

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Expert13531507
GPQA Diamond—93.3%
Humanity's Last Exam—36.2%
SimpleQA Verified—45.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%

Multimodal GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Vision11541303
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.1%
Furniture Assembly—37.5%
LMArena Document—1471

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Non-English13031465
LMArena Chinese13371519
LMArena Russian12981480
LMArena Spanish13361454
LMArena French—1493
LMArena German—1472
LMArena Japanese—1485
LMArena Korean—1448

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Instruction Following13111469

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Longer Query13041473
CL-bench—27.9%
CL-bench Life—21.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.4
LMArena Text13331469
LMArena Creative Writing12951439
LMArena Multi-Turn13321482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
EQ-Bench 4—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or GPT-5.4?

GLM-4.5V is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is GLM-4.5V or GPT-5.4 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and GPT-5.4 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.

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