Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.2

Rank #158 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

48.8

Rank #47 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.3 to 34.7.
  • GLM-4.5V is cheaper at $0.60 / $1.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
  • GPT-5.1 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 64K.
  • GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and GPT-5.1 specifications
GLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index39.248.8
Released2025-08-112025-11-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window64K400K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$10
Results tracked1563

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 38.9 (#152), GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Coding13471454
SWE-bench Verified—68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66%
LMArena WebDev—1395
SciCode—43.3%
GSO—13.7%
WeirdML—60.8%
LiveBench Coding—72.5%
ALE-Bench—1,192

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: —, GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench—47.6%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1199
Vending-Bench 2—1,473

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 26.5 (#118), GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13351457
ARC-AGI-2—17.6%
SimpleBench—53.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%—
ARC-AGI-1—72.8%
CritPt—4.9%
Chess Puzzles—32%
EnigmaEval—11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.66
ForecastBench—58.1
LiveBench—78.8%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 34.7 (#157), GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Math13531446
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.6%
Omni-MATH—46.4%
LiveBench Math—94.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—31%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 36.8 (#155), GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Expert13531470
GPQA Diamond—87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—23.7%
SimpleQA Verified—48%
MMLU-Pro—57.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.9%
GPQA (HELM)—44.2%

Multimodal GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 33.6 (#86), GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Vision11541250
VPCT—58.7%
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 44.9 (#172), GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English13041431
LMArena Chinese13381495
LMArena Russian12991435
LMArena Spanish13351430
LMArena French—1451
LMArena German—1439
LMArena Japanese—1453
LMArena Korean—1401

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 69.4 (#170), GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following13111442
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%
IFEval—93.5%

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#166), GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Longer Query13051448
CL-bench—23.7%
CL-bench Life—17.3%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GLM-4.5V: 52.7 (#162), GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VGPT-5.1
LMArena Text13331443
LMArena Creative Writing12951427
LMArena Multi-Turn13331449
WildBench—86.3%
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5V costs 3.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or GPT-5.1?

GLM-4.5V is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GLM-4.5V or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.9 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1 does, with 400K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and GPT-5.1 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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