Model comparison
GLM-5V-Turbo vs o3-mini
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 7 categories and o3-mini in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 29.7 to 16.3.
- Both cost about the same: $1.20 input and $4 output per million tokens.
Side by side
| GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 36.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-01 | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Max output | 131K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.20 | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4 | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1466 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1401 | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GLM-5V-Turbo: —, o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1366 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 34.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.34 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1441 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 76.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42), o3-mini: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | — |
Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1420 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1488 | 1379 |
| LMArena French | 1444 | 1334 |
| LMArena German | 1423 | 1303 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1431 | 1304 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1321 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1286 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1423 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1438 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than o3-mini?
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo or o3-mini?
GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; o3-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.
Is GLM-5V-Turbo or o3-mini better for coding?
GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 200K tokens.
How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and o3-mini share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.