# Claude Opus 5 vs GLM 4.6

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 5: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

GLM 4.6: $0.875 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 5: closed weights.

GLM 4.6: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in General LLM at #11 against #87.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in Reasoning at #9 against #89.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in Coding › Web dev at #6 against #88.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in Long context at #9 against #90.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads GLM 4.6 in Factuality at #4 against #55.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Factuality (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 4.6 is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Nov 5, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).