Model comparison

GLM-4.5 vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 43.0 to 38.2.
  • GLM-4.5 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $3.20 for Qwen3.5 122B-A10B.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
GLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.042.1
Released2025-07-272026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K262K
Max output98K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$3.20
Results tracked2727

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding14341436
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)54.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
WeirdML40.6%—
ALE-Bench344.82—
AlgoTune1.52—

Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts14291421
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LMCA—32.2%

Math Too close to call

GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math14271432

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert14331432
Humanity's Last Exam8.3%—
Confabulations11.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English14171400
LMArena Chinese14651462
LMArena French14181442
LMArena German14071426
LMArena Japanese14151367
LMArena Korean13801352
LMArena Russian14141400
LMArena Spanish14541424

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following14041399

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query14121410
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text14301417
LMArena Creative Writing13951368
LMArena Multi-Turn14151416
Short-Story Creative Writing73.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1343—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5 better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

GLM-4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 122B-A10B lists at $0.40 and $3.20.

Is GLM-4.5 or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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