# GLM-4.5 vs GPT-4o

> GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-4-5-vs-gpt-4o
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-4o in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.5 leads 39.0 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 54.2% for GLM-4.5 and 21.6% for GPT-4o.
- GLM-4.5 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 42.0 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 122 | 324 |
| Context | 131K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.60 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $2.20 | $10 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)
- GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 54.2% | 21.6% |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | 25.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1297 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 31% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 45.3% |
| GSO | — | 0% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 51.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 51.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.1% |
| CadEval | — | 26% |
| ALE-Bench | 344.82 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 72.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-4.5: —
- GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| GDPval | — | 9.9% |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 8.6% |
| Cybench | — | 12.5% |
| BALROG | — | 32.3% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1006 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 40.8% |

## Reasoning

- GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)
- GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1281 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 17.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 13% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 55.8% |
| DTBench | — | 64.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 60.9% |
| LMCA | — | 16.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.97 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.7 |
| LiveBench | — | 55.3% |

## Math

- GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)
- GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1427 | 1285 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 49.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 53.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)
- GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.3% | 2.7% |
| Confabulations | 11.3% | 15.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1433 | 1250 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.2% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 26% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 71.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52% |
| MMLU | — | 88.1% |

## Multimodal

- GLM-4.5: —
- GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1137 |
| Video-MME | — | 71.9% |
| GeoBench | — | 71% |
| VPCT | — | 40% |
| ScienceQA | — | 88.5% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)
- GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1283 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1407 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | 1257 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1234 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1292 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)
- GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1278 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 68.6% |
| IFEval | — | 81.7% |

## Long Context

- GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)
- GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1412 | 1289 |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)
- GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1300 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1395 | 1292 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.4% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1415 | 1302 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1343 | — |
| WildBench | — | 82.8% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 47.6% |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-4.5 better than GPT-4o?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or GPT-4o?

GLM-4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is GLM-4.5 or GPT-4o better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and GPT-4o share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.