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Model Pareto

Claude Opus 5 vs GLM-5.3

Claude Opus 5 scores higher in coding, writing & chat and hard reasoning; GLM-5.3 in agents. Claude Opus 5 costs 4.7× as much as GLM-5.3 ($10.0 vs $2.15 per million tokens, blended 3:1 input:output).
Claude Opus 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
    Quality
    83.3
    Rank
    #5/103
    Price
    $10.0/M tok
    Speed
    54tok/s
    In$5.00Out$25/M tok

    vs GLM-5.3: +9.3 quality · 4.7× 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: −9.2 quality · 0.21× price

Overview

Metric
Claude Opus 5
GLM-5.3
Lab
Anthropic
Z.ai (Zhipu)
Released
Jul 24, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Input price
$/M tok
$5.00
$1.40Best
Output price
$/M tok
$25
$4.40Best
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
$10
$2.15Best
Output speed
tok/s
54
57Best
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
GLM-5.3
Coding
83.3±3.2Best
#5/103Mixed
74.0±4.5
#9/103Verified
Writing & chat
93.4±4.3Best
#2/146Verifiedbest value
86.0±4.3
#6/146Verifiedbest value
Vision
77.4±4.8
#9/82Verified
Not ranked
Hard reasoning
91.7±3.7Best
#5/182Verified
81.0±3.7
#15/182Verified
Agents
84.8±4.6
#8/173Mixed
87.4±5.8Best
#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
GLM-5.3
SWE-bench Verified
day 0
#1/1396.0%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 596.0%
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 585.2%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
~#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
#4/1879.2%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #3Claude Fable 5.181.2%
  3. #4Claude Opus 579.2%
  4. #5Intern-S2-397B68.5%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
~#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
#20/3062.5%BestVerified
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #19GLM-5.3 Flash63.4%
  3. #20Claude Opus 562.5%
  4. #21GLM-5.361.4%
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
#5/8349.0%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #4Claude Fable 5.152.0%
  3. #5Claude Opus 549.0%
  4. #6GPT-6 Sol43.9%
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
~#3/20~91.3%Estimated
  1. #1Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash92.6%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 Flash-Next91.9%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated91.3%
  4. #3Qwen3.8 27B90.3%
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
#14/9556.4%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.9%
  2. #13GPT-6 Astra56.5%
  3. #14Claude Opus 556.4%
  4. #15GPT-5.555.8%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/9559.0%BestVerified
  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
#4/1459.7BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #3GPT-6 Astra61.6
  3. #4Claude Opus 559.7
  4. #5GPT-6 Sol56.7
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
GLM-5.3
IFBench
day 0
~#3/126~82.8%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M382.9%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B82.8%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated82.8%
  4. #3Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash81.5%
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
~#2/5~92.2%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated92.2%
  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
#4/531483BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51501
  2. #3Muse Spark 1.3Few votes1487
  3. #4Claude Opus 51483
  4. #4Gemini 3.8 FlashFew votes1483
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
#3/531493BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51509
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11501
  3. #3Claude Opus 51493
  4. #3Gemini 3.8 Flash1493
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-24
#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
#3/252133BestVerified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.12162
  3. #3Claude Opus 52133
  4. #4GPT-6 Sol2125
eqbench.com · 2026-09-24
#6/252075Verified
  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
GLM-5.3
MMMU
day 0
~#2/3~71.3%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Haiku 4.573.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated71.3%
  3. #2Llama 4 Maverick69.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
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MMMU-Pro
day 0
#4/7684.7%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.587.7%
  2. #3Gemini 3.8 Flash85.6%
  3. #4Claude Opus 584.7%
  4. #5GPT-6 Sol83.3%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
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CharXiv Reasoning
day 0
~#2/9~84.9%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.8 Flash86.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated84.9%
  3. #2Kimi K384.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
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OmniDocBench v1.5
third-party
~#4/8~90.7%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M391.6%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B91.1%
  3. ~#4Claude Opus 5Estimated90.7%
  4. #4Gemini 3.1 Pro85.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
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GDP.pdf (AA)
third-party
#9/4221.6%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra31.0%
  2. #8Kimi K322.0%
  3. #9Claude Opus 521.6%
  4. #10GPT-5.521.2%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
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Chartography
third-party
#11/2227.3%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra71.0%
  2. #10Muse Spark 1.327.6%
  3. #11Claude Opus 527.3%
  4. #12Kimi K326.6%
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
GLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond
day 0
#11/17293.2%BestVerified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra96.1%
  2. #5Step 5 Preview93.5%
  3. #11Claude Opus 593.2%
  4. #12MiniMax-M392.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#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
#4/17854.9%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.561.4%
  2. #3Claude Sonnet 5.555.0%
  3. #4Claude Opus 554.9%
  4. #5GPT-6 Astra54.7%
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
~#2/25~96.9%Estimated
  1. #1Inkling97.1%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated96.9%
  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
#5/7450.8BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.557.6
  2. #4GPT-6 Astra52.7
  3. #5Claude Opus 550.8
  4. #6Muse Spark 1.348.1
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
GLM-5.3
τ²-bench (Telecom)
day 0
~#2/116~98.3%Estimated
  1. #1Step 3.7 Flash98.5%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 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
~#3/12~84.0%Estimated
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated84.0%
  4. #3Nex-N2.5-Pro82.2%
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
~#3/5~55.3%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. #2Kimi K358.3%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated55.3%
  4. #3GPT-5.6 Terra50.2%
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
#4/1790.8%Lab-reported
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #3Kimi K391.2%
  3. #4Claude Opus 590.8%
  4. #5Nex-N2.5-Pro89.7%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
~#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
#3/861708BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51846
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11735
  3. #3Claude Opus 51708
  4. #4Grok 4.71695
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
#17/7956.6%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.569.5%
  2. #16DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)56.7%
  3. #17Claude Opus 556.6%
  4. #18Qwen3.8 Max (0902)56.2%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/7962.2%BestVerified
  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
#12/8842.1%Verified
  1. #1Muse Spark 1.350.5%
  2. #11Grok 4.643.3%
  3. #12Claude Opus 542.1%
  4. #13GPT-6 Astra41.4%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#2/8850.3%BestVerified
  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
#3/374.0%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.581.8%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.180.7%
  3. #3Claude Opus 574.0%
anthropic.com · 2026-09-22
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