# GLM-4.5 vs o3

> o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5 costs 3.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-4-5-vs-o3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 2 categories and o3 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 35.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 58.3% for GLM-4.5 and 88.9% for o3.
- GLM-4.5 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for o3.
- o3 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 42.0 | 47.5 |
| Rank | 122 | 61 |
| Context | 131K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.60 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $2.20 | $8 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)
- o3: 46.8 (#64)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 54.2% | 58.4% |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | 52.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1408 |
| ALE-Bench | 344.82 | 933.55 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 62.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 81.3% |
| GSO | — | 8.8% |
| CadEval | — | 74% |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-4.5: —
- o3: 34.5 (#44)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 30.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 45.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 23% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1144 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 65.4% |

## Reasoning

- GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)
- o3: 32.0 (#78)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | 67.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1402 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 60.8% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 13.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| DTBench | — | 84.8% |
| LMCA | — | 39.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.86 |
| ForecastBench | — | 62.5 |

## Math

- GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)
- o3: 50.2 (#58)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1427 | 1426 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 18.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)
- o3: 54.6 (#52)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.3% | 20.3% |
| Confabulations | 11.3% | 14.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1433 | 1402 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 75.3% |

## Multimodal

- GLM-4.5: —
- o3: 41.4 (#36)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1214 |
| GeoBench | — | 74% |
| VPCT | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)
- o3: 51.7 (#105)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1401 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1437 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1430 |
| LMArena German | 1407 | 1420 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | 1403 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1406 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1395 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)
- o3: 72.8 (#127)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1368 |
| IFEval | — | 86.9% |

## Long Context

- GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)
- o3: 53.3 (#6)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 88.9% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1412 | 1372 |
| CL-bench | — | 17.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)
- o3: 63.5 (#64)

| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1410 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1395 | 1359 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.4% | 83.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1343 | 1676 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1415 | 1405 |
| WildBench | — | 86.1% |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-4.5 better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5 costs 3.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or o3?

GLM-4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; o3 lists at $2 and $8.

### Is GLM-4.5 or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 41.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

o3 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and o3 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.