Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs Grok 3

GLM-4.5V and Grok 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.8 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.8

Rank #158 Confirmed

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 2 categories and Grok 3 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.5V leads 27.4 to 13.7.
  • GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and Grok 3 specifications
GLM-4.5VGrok 3
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)xAI
Noometry Index39.839.9
Released2025-08-112025-04-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window64K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.60—
Output $ / M tokens$1.80—
Results tracked1540

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Coding13471432
Aider Polyglot—53.3%
WeirdML—37.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
BALROG—29.5%

Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%61.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13341434
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—36.1%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.33

Math Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Math13541391
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—55.6%
Omni-MATH—46.4%
MATH Level 5—88.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Expert13531421
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
MMLU-Pro—78.8%
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.8%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), Grok 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Vision1154—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Non-English13031410
LMArena Chinese13371448
LMArena Russian12981416
LMArena Spanish13361417
LMArena French—1460
LMArena German—1431
LMArena Japanese—1387
LMArena Korean—1373

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Instruction Following13111409
IFEval—88.4%

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Longer Query13041439
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGrok 3
LMArena Text13331426
LMArena Creative Writing12951414
LMArena Multi-Turn13321425
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1186
WildBench—84.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than Grok 3?

GLM-4.5V and Grok 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.8 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GLM-4.5V or Grok 3 better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and Grok 3 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.

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