The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.1 ·Anthropic vs Z.ai

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.1 — head-to-head comparison

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 profile Z.ai: GLM 5.1 profile All comparisons
claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 — Anthropic
Quality
#36 of 61
59based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Z.ai: GLM 5.1 — Z.ai
Quality
#12 of 61
88based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#153 of 316
53.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#221 of 340
$1.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.97 · Out $3.04
Cache hit price
#136 of 206
$0.18
per 1M tokens (−81%)
Context
#195 of 345
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 scores 59 and Z.ai: GLM 5.1 scores 88 — a 29-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 5.1. They share 3 published evaluations, with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 ahead on 0 and Z.ai: GLM 5.1 ahead on 3.

Published pricing is tracked for Z.ai: GLM 5.1 only, at $1.48 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5.1 is proprietary. 19 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Known Good Index 59 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 88 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.48
Output tok/s 54
Context window 205k
Providers 0 19
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

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

Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Known Good Index 59 88
Coding Index 61
Mathematics Index 89 92
Science Index 84 89
Reasoning Index 48
Agentic Index 61 82
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond82 / 85
MATH / AIME78 / 92
SWE-bench Verified71 / 74

Right-hand figures read claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 / Z.ai: GLM 5.1. claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 leads on 0 of 3, Z.ai: GLM 5.1 on 3.

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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.

Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Text Arena 1,438 1,465
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,455 1,470
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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.

Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Input $/1M $0.97
Output $/1M $3.04
Blended $/1M $1.48
Cache read $/1M $0.179
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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.

Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Context window 205k
Max output tokens 128k
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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.

Metricclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929Z.ai: GLM 5.1
Output tokens/s 54
Time to first token 1.9s
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Providers

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

19 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 blendedclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.1 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.1 tok/s
CoreWeave $2.15 125
Friendli $2.15 107
Crusoe $2.00 91
Fireworks $2.15 73
Parasail $2.15 73
Venice $2.37 69
GMICloud $1.50 63
SiliconFlow $1.83 63
DeepInfra $1.66 61
Wafer $1.55 54
Baidu · first party $1.50 54
Novita $2.13 52
AtlasCloud $1.94 44
Chutes $1.50 40
Phala $1.96 40
Z.AI · first party $2.15 38
Nebius $2.15 24
StreamLake $1.48 22
DigitalOcean $1.81 18

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

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