# GLM-4.5 vs GLM-4.6V

> GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-4-5-vs-glm-4-6v
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 5 categories and GLM-4.6V in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GLM-4.5 leads 52.8 to 48.6.
- GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
- GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 42.0 | 41.3 |
| Rank | 122 | 137 |
| Context | 131K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.60 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $2.20 | $0.90 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)
- GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1390 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 54.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 344.82 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |

## Reasoning

- GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)
- GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1368 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | — |

## Math

- GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)
- GLM-4.6V: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1427 | — |

## Knowledge

- GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)
- GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1433 | 1371 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 11.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- GLM-4.5: —
- GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1164 |

## Multilingual

- GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)
- GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1425 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)
- GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1352 |

## Long Context

- GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)
- GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1412 | 1358 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)
- GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1377 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1395 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1415 | 1360 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1343 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-4.5 better than GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

### Is GLM-4.5 or GLM-4.6V better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (41.4 vs 40.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.5 does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.6V share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.