# GLM-5.3 vs o4-mini

> GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.3 scores higher in 8 categories and o4-mini in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5.3 leads 75.7 to 54.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 68.8% for GLM-5.3 and 36.1% for o4-mini.
- o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.3.
- GLM-5.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
- GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 41.6 |
| Rank | 26 | 132 |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Input $/M | $1.40 | $1.10 |
| Output $/M | $4.40 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)
- o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 75.4% | 52.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1496 | 1368 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,317 | 826.17 |
| DeepSWE | 69% | — |
| FrontierCode | 40.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| CursorBench | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1622 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 30.2% | — |
| SciCode | 59% | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)
- o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 56.6% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,164 | — |

## Reasoning

- GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)
- o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 19.1% | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | 26% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1351 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 33% | 5% |
| DTBench | 87.7% | 77.6% |
| LMCA | 55.5% | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.61 | 145.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.15 | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |

## Math

- GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)
- o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 68.8% | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.1% | 81.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1489 | 1389 |
| ProofBench | 49% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)
- o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9% | 79.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 41% | 19.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1516 | 1343 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |

## Multimodal

- GLM-5.3: —
- o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)
- o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1457 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1528 | 1354 |
| LMArena French | 1499 | 1364 |
| LMArena German | 1499 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | 1472 | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | 1463 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1460 | 1347 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)
- o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1477 | 1321 |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |

## Long Context

- GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)
- o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1482 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)
- o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1471 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1457 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1472 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2075 | — |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5.3 better than o4-mini?

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3 or o4-mini?

o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; GLM-5.3 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

### Is GLM-5.3 or o4-mini better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3 and o4-mini share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3 has 42 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.