# GLM-5 vs Qwen-VL Max

> GLM-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#66); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5-vs-qwen-vl-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $3.20 for GLM-5.
- GLM-5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.
- GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 46.1 | 35.9 |
| Rank | 66 | — |
| Context | 205K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $1 | $0.80 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $3.20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GLM-5: 49.0 (#52)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 72.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1434 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 69.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 765.62 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-5: 31.1 (#71)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 52.4% | — |
| 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 (#116)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 75% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 44.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 10% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.83 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61 | — |

## Math

- GLM-5: 46.4 (#71)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 65.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 80% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1440 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 16.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5: 52.3 (#64)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | — |

## Multimodal

- GLM-5: —
- Qwen-VL Max: 32.3 (#101)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1213 |
| Video-MME | — | 51.3% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 32% |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5: 53.7 (#58)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1430 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1511 | — |
| LMArena French | 1455 | — |
| LMArena German | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1423 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1436 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5: 75.2 (#67)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1428 | — |

## Long Context

- GLM-5: 44.7 (#60)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 18.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1446 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5: 66.0 (#38)
- Qwen-VL Max: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen-VL Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1439 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1601 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1456 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5 better than Qwen-VL Max?

GLM-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#66); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; GLM-5 lists at $1 and $3.20.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Qwen-VL Max share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.