Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.8

Rank #158 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.5V leads 37.4 to 19.3.
  • GLM-4.5V is cheaper at $0.60 / $1.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $5.60 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 64K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
GLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.831.9
Released2025-08-112024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window64K131K
Max output16K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$5.60
Results tracked1543

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding13471292
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13341271
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%—
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Math13541283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Expert13531245
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
MMLU—85.3%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision1154—

Multilingual GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13031252
LMArena Chinese13371272
LMArena Russian12981264
LMArena Spanish13361256
LMArena French—1280
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188

Instruction Following GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13111254
IFEval—80.6%

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13041282

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text13331269
LMArena Creative Writing12951221
LMArena Multi-Turn13321272
WildBench—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

GLM-4.5V is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct lists at $1.40 and $5.60.

Is GLM-4.5V or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

GLM-4.5V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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