The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 5 ·Anthropic vs Z.ai

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 5 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 profile Z.ai: GLM 5 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#11 of 62
88based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#216 of 317
36.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#344 of 370
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#217 of 238
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#104 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5 — Z.ai
Quality
#20 of 62
77based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#215 of 317
36.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#232 of 370
$1.35
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.95 · Out $2.55
Cache hit price
#167 of 238
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−79%)
Context
#216 of 375
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 88 and Z.ai: GLM 5 scores 77 — a 11-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. They share 4 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ahead on 4 and Z.ai: GLM 5 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and $1.35 for Z.ai: GLM 5 — Z.ai: GLM 5 is about 7.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 36 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and 36 for Z.ai: GLM 5, with time to first token at 2.4s and 2.4s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 205k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 17 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Known Good Index 88 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 77 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.35
Output tok/s 36 36
Context window 1.00M 205k
Providers 4 14
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Known Good Index 88 77
Coding Index 89 67
Mathematics Index 93 80
Reasoning Index 84
Agentic Index 89 67
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 88
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 80
SWE-bench Verified79 / 72
Terminal-Bench80 / 52

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 / Z.ai: GLM 5. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 4 of 4, Z.ai: GLM 5 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Text Arena 1,497 1,445
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,497 1,457
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.95
Output $/1M $25.00 $2.55
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.35
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.200
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Context window 1.00M 205k
Max output tokens 128k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5
Output tokens/s 36 36
Time to first token 2.4s 2.4s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

17 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5 tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 34
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 32 $1.55 96
Anthropic · first party $10.00 31
Azure · first party $10.00 28
DeepInfra $0.97 46
Parasail $1.55 40
Chutes $1.35 38
Venice $1.55 38
AtlasCloud $1.50 37
StreamLake $0.93 36
GMICloud $0.93 35
Baidu · first party $1.08 31
Z.AI · first party $1.55 31
Novita $1.55 28
SiliconFlow $1.35 27
DigitalOcean $1.16 8
Phala $1.77

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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