Model comparison

GLM-5.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)

47.8

Rank #59 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5.1 leads 39.1 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 93.3% for GLM-5.1 and 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.1.
  • GLM-5.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GLM-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Meta
Noometry Index47.830.9
Released2026-04-072025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window200K128K
Max output131K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.40$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$0.65
Results tracked4154

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 48.7 (#55), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
SciCode43.8%33.1%
WeirdML57.1%24.5%
LMArena Coding14851302
ALE-Bench887.1172.97
SWE-bench Verified74.2%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1508—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads

GLM-5.1: 24.9 (#113), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents40.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
ExploitBench18.1%—
GBAEval0%—
Vending-Bench 25,634—

Reasoning GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 39.1 (#60), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
SimpleBench55.1%27.7%
NYT Connections (extended)77.7%8%
CritPt4.6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14721281
Epoch Capabilities Index149.84132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
Chess Puzzles19%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Thematic Generalization69.8%—
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 49.7 (#60), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.3%20.6%
LMArena Math14731299
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)33.4%0.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)36.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.1%—
ProofBench22.2%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 54.9 (#50), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond89.9%67%
LMArena Expert14761259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified34%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.1: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#36), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14471269
LMArena Chinese15151277
LMArena French14741259
LMArena German14651291
LMArena Japanese14341207
LMArena Korean14181203
LMArena Russian14541286
LMArena Spanish14691293

Instruction Following GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 76.3 (#42), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14511267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#53), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14661280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 66.9 (#31), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14611287
LMArena Creative Writing14531267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1592860
LMArena Multi-Turn14721289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.1 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; GLM-5.1 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

Is GLM-5.1 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

GLM-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.1 has 41 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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