Model comparison

GLM-5 vs Mistral Medium

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

46.1

Rank #66 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5 leads 52.3 to 25.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for GLM-5 and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • GLM-5 is cheaper at $1 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
  • Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

GLM-5 and Mistral Medium specifications
GLM-5Mistral Medium
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index46.136.3
Released2026-02-112023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K262K
Max output131K262K
Input $ / M tokens$1$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$7.50
Results tracked4536

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 49.0 (#52), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
WeirdML48.2%43.7%
LMArena Coding14611434
ALE-Bench765.62763.98
SWE-bench Verified72.1%—
FrontierCode—8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1434—
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%—
SciCode—40.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 31.1 (#71), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
Terminal-Bench52.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%
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 (#116), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%50%
LMArena Hard Prompts14521426
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%—
ARC-AGI-144.7%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles10%—
DTBench—75.5%
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.83—
ForecastBench61—

Math GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 46.4 (#71), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%32.2%
LMArena Math14401408
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)16.4%0.3%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions65.7%—
ProofBench—9%
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 52.3 (#64), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
GPQA Diamond87.8%59.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.1%22.7%
LMArena Expert14541408
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 53.7 (#58), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14301408
LMArena Chinese15111447
LMArena French14551459
LMArena German14451432
LMArena Japanese14161378
LMArena Korean14231380
LMArena Russian14361411
LMArena Spanish14541433

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 75.2 (#67), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14281398

Long Context GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.7 (#60), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14461406
CL-bench18.7%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 66.0 (#38), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mistral Medium
LMArena Text14461424
LMArena Creative Writing14391391
LMArena Multi-Turn14561418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1601—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5 better than Mistral Medium?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Mistral Medium?

GLM-5 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is GLM-5 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

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

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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