Model comparison

GLM-4.6V vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6V costs 25× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

40.9

Rank #133 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6V scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.7 to 26.5.
  • GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.6V and GPT-5.5 specifications
GLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index40.963.4
Released2025-12-082026-04-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$5
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$30
Results tracked1271

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128), GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Coding13901494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1512
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts13681489
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.25
ForecastBench—60.6

Math Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Expert13721508
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83), GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision11641297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135), GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English13591467
LMArena Chinese14261535
LMArena Russian13411473
LMArena French—1486
LMArena German—1478
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Korean—1461
LMArena Spanish—1469

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145), GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following13511479

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query13581484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.5
LMArena Text13771471
LMArena Creative Writing13471455
LMArena Multi-Turn13591477
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6V better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6V costs 25× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6V or GPT-5.5?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Is GLM-4.6V or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 40.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and GPT-5.5 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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