Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs GPT-5 Nano

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-5 Nano costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V'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 Nano OpenAI

33.5

Rank #241 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.5V leads 52.5 to 39.1.
  • GPT-5 Nano is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $1.80 for GLM-4.5V.
  • GPT-5 Nano accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 64K.
  • GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and GPT-5 Nano specifications
GLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index39.833.5
Released2025-08-112025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window64K400K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$0.40
Results tracked1549

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Coding13471351
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%62.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13341328
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.38
ForecastBench—59.1

Math GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241)

Knowledge GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Expert13531321
GPQA Diamond—69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%

Multimodal GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision11541159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English13031313
LMArena Chinese13371356
LMArena Russian12981296
LMArena Spanish13361360
LMArena German—1327
LMArena Japanese—1226
LMArena Korean—1269

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Instruction Following13111306
IFEval—93.2%

Long Context GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Longer Query13041312
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text13331320
LMArena Creative Writing12951249
LMArena Multi-Turn13321311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than GPT-5 Nano?

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-5 Nano costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5V lists at $0.60 and $1.80.

Is GLM-4.5V or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

GLM-4.5V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 33.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Nano does, with 400K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and GPT-5 Nano share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 49.

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