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Model Pareto

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GLM-5.3

Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher than GLM-5.3 in all 4 shared categories. Claude Opus 5.5 costs 3.7× as much as GLM-5.3 ($8.00 vs $2.15 per million tokens, blended 3:1 input:output).
Claude Opus 5.5GLM-5.3
Focus

Coding: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 101 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Granite 4.2 3B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, gpt-oss-20b, Ling-3.0-flash-VL, MiMo-V2.6-Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5. 26 models are not plotted: Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Nex-N2.5-Pro, Atria Dawn Preview, Intern-S2-397B, Solar Open2 250B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, Nex-N2.5-Mini, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), Command A+, North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B.

26 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Nex-N2.5-Pro, Atria Dawn Preview, Intern-S2-397B, Solar Open2 250B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, Nex-N2.5-Mini, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), Command A+, North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Claude Opus 5.5
    Quality
    96.9
    Rank
    #1/103
    Price
    $8.00/M tok
    Speed
    92tok/s
    In$4.00Out$20/M tok

    vs GLM-5.3: +22.8 quality · 3.7× price

  • GLM-5.3
    Quality
    74.0
    Rank
    #9/103
    Price
    $2.15/M tok
    Speed
    57tok/s
    In$1.40▾Out$4.40▾/M tok

    vs Claude Opus 5.5: −22.8 quality · 0.27× price

Overview

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
Lab
Anthropic
Z.ai (Zhipu)
Released
Sep 22, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Input price
$/M tok
$4.00
$1.40Best
Output price
$/M tok
$20
$4.40Best
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
$8.00
$2.15Best
Output speed
tok/s
92Best
57
Context
tokens
1MBest
1MBest

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
Coding
96.9±3.4Best
#1/103Mixedbest value
74.0±4.5
#9/103Verified
Writing & chat
93.0±4.3Best
#3/146Verifiedbest value
86.0±4.3
#6/146Verifiedbest value
Vision
94.5±4.8
#2/82Verifiedbest value
Not ranked
Hard reasoning
99.9±2.6Best
#1/182Verifiedbest value
81.0±3.7
#15/182Verified
Agents
99.6±4.1Best
#1/173Verifiedbest value
87.4±5.8
#4/173Verified

Coding benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
SWE-bench Verified
day 0
~#2/14~94.7%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Opus 596.0%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated94.7%
  3. #2Claude Sonnet 585.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/14~89.7%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Opus 596.0%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated89.7%
  3. #2Claude Sonnet 585.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
SWE-bench Pro (Public)
day 0
#1/1889.9%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 5.581.3%
www-cdn.anthropic.com · 2026-09-22
~#5/19~71.3%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #4Claude Opus 579.2%
  3. ~#5GLM-5.3Estimated71.3%
  4. #5Intern-S2-397B68.5%
estimated from related benchmarks
DeepSWE v1.1
day 0
#8/3068.4%BestVerified
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #7GPT-6 Sol69.0%
  3. #8Claude Opus 5.568.4%
  4. #8Kimi K368.4%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#21/3061.4%Verified
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #20Claude Opus 562.5%
  3. #21GLM-5.361.4%
  4. #22Qwen3.8 Flash-Next58.7%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Terminal-Bench 4.0
day 0
#2/8359.6%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.559.6%
  3. #3GPT-6 Astra59.1%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#7/8341.9%Verified
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #6GPT-6 Sol43.9%
  3. #7GLM-5.341.9%
  4. #8Qwen3.8 Max (0902)38.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LiveCodeBench
third-party
~#2/20~92.3%Estimated
  1. #1Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash92.6%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated92.3%
  3. #2Qwen3.8 Flash-Next91.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/20~92.1%Estimated
  1. #1Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash92.6%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated92.1%
  3. #2Qwen3.8 Flash-Next91.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
SciCode
third-party
#1/9566.9%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.9%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.163.1%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/9559.0%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.9%
  2. #5Kimi K359.5%
  3. #6GLM-5.359.0%
  4. #7Step 5 Preview58.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Coding Agent Index
third-party
#1/1466.0BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.162.2
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#8/1453.6Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #7Muse Spark 1.354.3
  3. #8GLM-5.353.6
  4. #9Kimi K351.9
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Benchmarks in other categories (4)

Writing & chat benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
IFBench
day 0
~#2/126~82.8%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M382.9%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated82.8%
  3. #2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B82.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/126~81.7%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M382.9%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B82.8%
  3. ~#3GLM-5.3Estimated81.7%
  4. #3Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash81.5%
estimated from related benchmarks
MMMLU
day 0
~#2/5~92.3%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated92.3%
  3. #2Gemma 4 31B88.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/5~91.3%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated91.3%
  3. #2Gemma 4 31B88.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text, Non-English (Elo)
third-party
#1/531501BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51501
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.1Few votes1496
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-25
#10/531466Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51501
  2. #9Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1467
  3. #10GLM-5.31466
  4. #11GLM-5.3 Flash1463
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text (Elo)
third-party
#1/531509BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51509
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11501
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-25
#10/531480Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51509
  2. #9Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1481
  3. #10GLM-5.31480
  4. #10GPT-6 AstraFew votes1480
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-25
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 (Elo)
third-party
#7/252050Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #6GLM-5.32075
  3. #7Claude Opus 5.52050
  4. #8Grok 4.72007
eqbench.com · 2026-09-24
#6/252075BestVerified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #5Kimi K32082
  3. #6GLM-5.32075
  4. #7Claude Opus 5.52050
eqbench.com · 2026-09-24

Vision benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
MMMU
day 0
~#2/3~71.3%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Haiku 4.573.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated71.3%
  3. #2Llama 4 Maverick69.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
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MMMU-Pro
day 0
#1/7687.7%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.587.7%
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra86.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
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CharXiv Reasoning
day 0
~#2/9~86.1%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.8 Flash86.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated86.1%
  3. #2Kimi K384.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
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OmniDocBench v1.5
third-party
~#2/8~91.4%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M391.6%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated91.4%
  3. #2Kimi K391.1%
estimated from related benchmarks
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GDP.pdf (AA)
third-party
#3/4226.2%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra31.0%
  2. #3Claude Fable 5.126.2%
  3. #3Claude Opus 5.526.2%
  4. #5GPT-6 Sol24.8%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
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Chartography
third-party
#2/2266.3%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra71.0%
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.566.3%
  3. #3GPT-6 Sol53.6%
surgehq.ai · 2026-09-24
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Hard reasoning benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond
day 0
~#2/173~96.1%Estimated
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra96.1%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated96.1%
  3. #2Gemini 3.8 Flash95.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
#18/17291.7%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra96.1%
  2. #16Qwen3.8 Flash-Next92.3%
  3. #18GLM-5.391.7%
  4. #19GPT-5.3 Codex91.5%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Humanity's Last Exam
day 0
#1/17861.4%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.561.4%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.159.1%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#21/17842.3%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.561.4%
  2. #20Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B42.4%
  3. #21GLM-5.342.3%
  4. #22Claude Sonnet 541.3%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AIME (latest)
day 0
~#2/25~96.7%Estimated
  1. #1Inkling97.1%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated96.7%
  3. #2Muse Glimmer94.7%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/25~96.7%Estimated
  1. #1Inkling97.1%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated96.7%
  3. #2Muse Glimmer94.7%
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Intelligence Index
third-party
#1/7457.6BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.557.6
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 5.556.0
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#11/7444.8Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.557.6
  2. #10Qwen3.8 Max (0902)45.4
  3. #11GLM-5.344.8
  4. #12Grok 4.644.2
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24

Agents benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Claude Opus 5.5
GLM-5.3
τ²-bench (Telecom)
day 0
~#2/116~98.3%Estimated
  1. #1Step 3.7 Flash98.5%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated98.3%
  3. #2Gemini 3.1 Pro95.6%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/116~98.3%Estimated
  1. #1Step 3.7 Flash98.5%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated98.3%
  3. #2Gemini 3.1 Pro95.6%
estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld-Verified
day 0
~#2/12~84.6%Estimated
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated84.6%
  3. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/12~84.0%Estimated
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. ~#3GLM-5.3Estimated84.0%
  4. #3Nex-N2.5-Pro82.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld 2.0
day 0
~#2/5~58.7%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated58.7%
  3. #2Kimi K358.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/5~58.4%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. ~#2GLM-5.3Estimated58.4%
  3. #2Kimi K358.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
BrowseComp
day 0
~#2/18~92.3%Estimated
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5.5Estimated92.3%
  3. #2GPT-6 Astra91.5%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#4/18~91.1%Estimated
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #3Kimi K391.2%
  3. ~#4GLM-5.3Estimated91.1%
  4. #4Claude Opus 590.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
GDPval-AA (Elo)
third-party
#1/861846BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51846
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11735
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#8/861646Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51846
  2. #7Qwen3.8 Max (0902)1668
  3. #8GLM-5.31646
  4. #9GLM-5.3 Flash1641
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AutomationBench-AA
third-party
#1/7969.5%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.569.5%
  2. #2DeepSeek V4.1 Flash68.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/7962.2%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.569.5%
  2. #5Grok 4.765.6%
  3. #6GLM-5.362.2%
  4. #7GPT-6 Sol61.6%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
τ-Bench Banking (AA)
third-party
~#3/89~50.0%Estimated
  1. #1Muse Spark 1.350.5%
  2. #2GLM-5.350.3%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5.5Estimated50.0%
  4. #3Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B49.1%
estimated from related benchmarks
#2/8850.3%Verified
  1. #1Muse Spark 1.350.5%
  2. #2GLM-5.350.3%
  3. #3Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B49.1%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Not comparable across labs (1)
OSWorld 2.0 (Sept 2026 release)
day 0
#1/381.8%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.581.8%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.180.7%
anthropic.com · 2026-09-22
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