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Claude Sonnet 5.5vsGLM-4.5V

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GLM-4.5V is 5x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
GLM-4.5V
5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Z.ai
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$10 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
29 · 10 core
GLM-4.5V
Z.ai · released 2025-08-11
textvisionvideo
Context
64K
Max out
16K
Input /1M
$0.6 ↗
Output /1M
$1.8 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.11
Scores
17 · 2 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5GLM-4.5VΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
LMArena Elo1471 ↗1352.4 ↗+118.6Claude Sonnet 5.5
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1268.3 ↗1152.7 ↗+115.6Claude Sonnet 5.5
Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 reports · 27
GPQA Diamond95.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)75.5% ↗not reported——
Chartography (no tools)61.6% ↗not reported——
CursorBench 4.055.5% ↗not reported——
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)46.2% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)80.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)88.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)61.9% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)75% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)64.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)56.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)91.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)78.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)70.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)83.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)91.6% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1252 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1786.3 ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)65% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld 2.1 (partial)80.1% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)75.9% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified46.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.070.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)64.1% ↗not reported——
Only GLM-4.5V reports · 15
AndroidWorldnot reported57% ↗——
ChartQAPronot reported64% ↗——
Design2Codenot reported82.2% ↗——
MathVisionnot reported65.6% ↗——
MathVistanot reported84.6% ↗——
MMBench v1.1not reported88.2% ↗——
MMLongBench-Docnot reported44.7% ↗——
MMMU (val)not reported75.4% ↗——
MMMU Pronot reported65.2% ↗——
MMStarnot reported75.3% ↗——
OCRBenchnot reported86.5% ↗——
OSWorldnot reported35.8% ↗——
VideoMME (w/o sub)not reported74.6% ↗——
VideoMMMUnot reported72.4% ↗——
WebVoyagerSomnot reported84.4% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 5.5 minus GLM-4.5V in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Sonnet 5.5GLM-4.5VEdge
Context window1M tokens64K tokensClaude Sonnet 5.5
Max output128K tokens16K tokensClaude Sonnet 5.5
Input price / 1M$2 ↗$0.6 ↗GLM-4.5V
Output price / 1M$10 ↗$1.8 ↗GLM-4.5V
Cached input / 1M$0.2 ↗$0.11 ↗GLM-4.5V
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$12$2.4GLM-4.5V
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · videoGLM-4.5V
Released2026-09-282025-08-11—
Cited benchmark scores2917—
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