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Claude Opus 5 vs GLM 4.5

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5 · GLM 4.5 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5
#21 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
GLM 4.5
#22 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
10.7x better value than Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
4.6 pts/$
$15.00/M
GLM 4.5
49.4 pts/$
$1.40/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
z-ai logoGLM 4.5$0.60$2.20131K tokens (~66 books)$10.00