Model comparison

GLM-5V-Turbo vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai (Zhipu)

43.1

Rank #86 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

47.8

Rank #49 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 4 in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 44.0.

Side by side

GLM-5V-Turbo and Grok 4 specifications
GLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)xAI
Noometry Index43.147.8
Released2026-04-012025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.20—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked1948

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 41.8 (#105), Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Coding14671408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
LMArena WebDev1400—
WeirdML—45.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5V-Turbo: —, Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 28.5 (#87), Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Hard Prompts14431409
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
Chess Puzzles—28%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.46
ForecastBench—60.9

Math Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 36.6 (#109), Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Math14401422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84%
Omni-MATH—60.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.9 (#113), Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Expert14511417
GPQA Diamond—87%
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal GLM-5V-Turbo leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.1 (#41), Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Vision12641211
GeoBench—45%
LMArena Document1416—

Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.2 (#69), Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Non-English14201403
LMArena Chinese14881428
LMArena French14431418
LMArena German14221429
LMArena Korean13991376
LMArena Russian14321409
LMArena Spanish14461419
LMArena Japanese—1396

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.1 (#75), Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following14221387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#76), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query14391409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.6 (#69), Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-TurboGrok 4
LMArena Text14371412
LMArena Creative Writing14141397
LMArena Multi-Turn14321416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
WildBench—79.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-5V-Turbo or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and Grok 4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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