# GLM-5V-Turbo vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5v-turbo-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 29.7 to 17.3.
- GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper at $1.20 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 40.2 |
| Rank | 84 | 152 |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1.20 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $4 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1401 | 1264 |
| LMArena Coding | 1466 | 1461 |

## Reasoning

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1436 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.35 |

## Math

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1441 | 1431 |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1432 |

## Multimodal

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | 1223 |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | — |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1420 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1488 | 1442 |
| LMArena French | 1444 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1423 | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | 1431 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1409 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1423 | 1415 |

## Long Context

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1438 | 1415 |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo or Mistral Medium 3.5?

GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is GLM-5V-Turbo or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.