Model comparison
GLM-5V-Turbo vs o4-mini
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 5 categories and o4-mini in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 62.5 to 54.0.
- Both cost about the same: $1.20 input and $4 output per million tokens.
Side by side
| GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 41.6 |
| Released | 2026-04-01 | 2025-04-16 |
| 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 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1466 | 1368 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1401 | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GLM-5V-Turbo: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |
Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1351 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |
Math o4-mini leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1441 | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge o4-mini leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1343 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |
Multimodal Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42), o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | — |
Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1420 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1488 | 1354 |
| LMArena French | 1444 | 1364 |
| LMArena German | 1423 | 1336 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | 1431 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1308 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1423 | 1321 |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |
Long Context o4-mini leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1438 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |
Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than o4-mini?
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo or o4-mini?
GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.
Is GLM-5V-Turbo or o4-mini better for coding?
GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 200K tokens.
How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and o4-mini share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.