Model comparison

GLM-5V-Turbo vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5V-Turbo costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

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

43.8

Rank #84 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 2 categories and o3 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 40.6.
  • GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper at $1.20 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for o3.

Side by side

GLM-5V-Turbo and o3 specifications
GLM-5V-Turboo3
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index43.847.5
Released2026-04-012025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K200K
Max output131K100K
Input $ / M tokens$1.20$2
Output $ / M tokens$4$8
Results tracked1963

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Coding14661408
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
LMArena WebDev1401—
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5V-Turbo: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%

Reasoning o3 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Hard Prompts14431402
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LMCA—39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.86
ForecastBench—62.5

Math o3 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Math14411426
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH—71.4%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge o3 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117), o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Expert14521402
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%

Multimodal Too close to call

GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42), o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Vision12641214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%
LMArena Document1416—

Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Non-English14201401
LMArena Chinese14881437
LMArena French14441430
LMArena German14231420
LMArena Korean13961370
LMArena Russian14311406
LMArena Spanish14501395
LMArena Japanese—1403

Instruction Following GLM-5V-Turbo leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Instruction Following14231368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context o3 leads

GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80), o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Longer Query14381372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5V-Turboo3
LMArena Text14371410
LMArena Creative Writing14161359
LMArena Multi-Turn14321405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5V-Turbo costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo or o3?

GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; o3 lists at $2 and $8.

Is GLM-5V-Turbo or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 42.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 200K tokens.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and o3 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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