# Claude Sonnet 5 vs GLM-5.3

> Claude Sonnet 5 and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.6 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-glm-5-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 41

## Summary

- They share 41 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 3 categories and GLM-5.3 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5.3 leads 75.7 to 69.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 77% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 49% for GLM-5.3.
- GLM-5.3 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.
- GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 54.6 | 54.8 |
| Rank | 29 | 26 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.40 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26)
- GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 53.8% | 69% |
| FrontierCode | 42.7% | 40.1% |
| CursorBench | 34.1% | 42.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1541 | 1622 |
| SciCode | 54.3% | 59% |
| WeirdML | 68.8% | 75.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1496 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,463 | 1,317 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 30.2% |
| GSO | 37.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18)
- GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.5% | 56.6% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,378 | 8,164 |
| GBAEval | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1194 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39)
- GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 75.1% | 74.2% |
| CritPt | 16.9% | 19.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 35% | 21% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1489 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | 33% |
| DTBench | 92.5% | 87.7% |
| LMCA | 50% | 55.5% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | 0.15 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.21 | 155.61 |
| SimpleBench | 60.6% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 60% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27)
- GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 65.6% | 68.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | 29.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.7% | 91.1% |
| ProofBench | 77% | 49% |
| LMArena Math | 1467 | 1489 |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47)
- GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | 90.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% | 41% |
| LMArena Expert | 1490 | 1516 |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31)
- GLM-5.3: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1274 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1466 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55)
- GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1457 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1477 | 1528 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1499 |
| LMArena German | 1440 | 1499 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | 1472 |
| LMArena Russian | 1451 | 1463 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | 1460 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41)
- GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1452 | 1477 |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55)
- GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1463 | 1482 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25)
- GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1442 | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1457 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1794 | 2075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1454 | 1472 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than GLM-5.3?

Claude Sonnet 5 and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.6 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5 lists at $2 and $10.

### Is Claude Sonnet 5 or GLM-5.3 better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 55.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and GLM-5.3 share?

41 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 42.