Model comparison
GLM-5V-Turbo vs Qwen3 Max
GLM-5V-Turbo and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 Max in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 40.6.
- GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper at $1.20 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
- Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.8 | 43.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-01 | 2025-09-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Max output | 131K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.20 | $1.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1466 | 1456 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1401 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 370.45 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GLM-5V-Turbo: —, Qwen3 Max: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |
Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1448 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 82.1% |
| LMCA | — | 28.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.38 |
Math Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1441 | 1446 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1455 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 72.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42), Qwen3 Max: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1264 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1416 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1420 | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1488 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1444 | 1449 |
| LMArena German | 1423 | 1463 |
| LMArena Korean | 1396 | 1399 |
| LMArena Russian | 1431 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1462 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1397 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1423 | 1419 |
Long Context GLM-5V-Turbo leads
GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1438 | 1438 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)
| Benchmark | GLM-5V-Turbo | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1402 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | 1446 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-5V-Turbo better than Qwen3 Max?
GLM-5V-Turbo and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.8 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo or Qwen3 Max?
GLM-5V-Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.
Is GLM-5V-Turbo or Qwen3 Max better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (42.1 vs 43.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-5V-Turbo and Qwen3 Max share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5V-Turbo has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.