# GLM-5 vs Mistral Large

> GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5 leads 44.8 to 17.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for GLM-5 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
- GLM-5 is cheaper at $1 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- GLM-5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 45.9 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 59 | 258 |
| Context | 205K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $1 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-5: 49.0 (#47)
- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | 1277 |
| ALE-Bench | 765.62 | 264.7 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 72.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1434 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 69.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-5: 30.9 (#65)
- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 52.4% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
| τ²-bench Airline | 82.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 9.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 73.7% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 86.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,432 | — |

## Reasoning

- GLM-5: 27.6 (#100)
- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | 22.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1451 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.84 | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | 61 | 57.1 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 75% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 44.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 10% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- GLM-5: 44.8 (#66)
- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 80% | 8.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1440 | 1262 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 16.4% | 0.3% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 65.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5: 52.2 (#59)
- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.8% | 51.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.1% | 4.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | 1232 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5: 53.9 (#57)
- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1430 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1511 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1455 | 1324 |
| LMArena German | 1445 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 1187 |
| LMArena Korean | 1421 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1436 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1452 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5: 75.4 (#64)
- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1427 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- GLM-5: 44.6 (#58)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1446 | 1262 |
| CL-bench | 18.7% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5: 66.2 (#38)
- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1446 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1438 | 1243 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1601 | 985 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1456 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5 better than Mistral Large?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Mistral Large?

GLM-5 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is GLM-5 or Mistral Large better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5 does, with 205K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Mistral Large share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.