Model comparison

GLM-5 vs Mistral Large

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

45.9

Rank #59 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.6

Rank #258 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5 leads 44.8 to 17.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for GLM-5 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
  • GLM-5 is cheaper at $1 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
  • GLM-5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GLM-5 and Mistral Large specifications
GLM-5Mistral Large
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index45.931.6
Released2026-02-112024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K131K
Max output131K16K
Input $ / M tokens$1$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$6
Results tracked4551

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 49.0 (#47), Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
LMArena Coding14611277
ALE-Bench765.62264.7
SWE-bench Verified72.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1434—
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%—
SciCode—36.2%
WeirdML48.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 30.9 (#65), Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
Terminal-Bench52.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking9.8%—
τ²-bench Retail73.7%—
τ²-bench Telecom86.8%—
Vending-Bench 24,432—

Reasoning GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 27.6 (#100), Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
SimpleBench53.2%22.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14511257
Epoch Capabilities Index145.84128.52
ForecastBench6157.1
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%—
ARC-AGI-144.7%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles10%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
DTBench—65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
LMCA—16.7%
LiveBench—48.4%

Math GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.8 (#66), Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%8.5%
LMArena Math14401262
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)16.4%0.3%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions65.7%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 52.2 (#59), Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
GPQA Diamond87.8%51.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.1%4.5%
LMArena Expert14541232
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 53.9 (#57), Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English14301237
LMArena Chinese15111240
LMArena French14551324
LMArena German14451254
LMArena Japanese14161187
LMArena Korean14211202
LMArena Russian14361257
LMArena Spanish14521268

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 75.4 (#64), Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following14271249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.6 (#58), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query14461262
CL-bench18.7%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 66.2 (#38), Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Large
LMArena Text14461266
LMArena Creative Writing14381243
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1601985
LMArena Multi-Turn14561260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5 better than Mistral Large?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Mistral Large?

GLM-5 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Is GLM-5 or Mistral Large better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5 does, with 205K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Mistral Large share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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