Compare · 2026-10-14

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GLM 4.5

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in 3 of 3 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, and Long context.

CategoryClaude Opus 5.5GLM 4.5
General LLM
#2 · Near-SOTA · General LLM
Margin 1.3605442176870781
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#107 · #107 in General LLM
Margin 72.78911564625851
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Reasoning
#1 · Co-SOTA · Reasoning
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#99 · #99 in Reasoning
Margin 68.4931506849315
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Math
#— · Not enough data
Margin —
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#31 · #31 in Math
Margin 66.66666666666666
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Aug 3, 2025
Science
#31 · #31 in Science
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
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Coding
#1 · Co-SOTA · Coding
Margin 0
Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026
#— · Not enough data
Margin —
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Coding › Agentic
#1 · Co-SOTA · Coding › Agentic
Margin 0
Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026
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Coding › Web dev
#1 · SOTA · Coding › Web dev
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
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Long context
#1 · Co-SOTA · Long context
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#103 · #103 in Long context
Margin 70.06802721088435
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Vision
#4 · Near-SOTA · Vision
Margin 13.15789473684211
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
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Factuality
#1 · Co-SOTA · Factuality
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
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Abstraction (ARC)
#1 · #1 in Abstraction (ARC)
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
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Price per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 5.5: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

GLM 4.5: $1 per 1M blended tokens.

Open weights

Claude Opus 5.5: closed weights.

GLM 4.5: open weights.

Which to pick

General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in General LLM at #2 against #107.

Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in Reasoning at #1 against #99.

Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in Long context at #1 against #103.

Claude Opus 5.5 · GLM 4.5

Claude Opus 5.5 or GLM 4.5?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in 3 of 3 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, and Long context.

Claude Opus 5.5 or GLM 4.5 for General LLM?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in General LLM at #2 against #107.

Claude Opus 5.5 or GLM 4.5 for Reasoning?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in Reasoning at #1 against #99.

Claude Opus 5.5 or GLM 4.5 for Long context?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads GLM 4.5 in Long context at #1 against #103.