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GLM 5.1 vs GPT-4 (older v0314)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 5.1 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · knowledge · math.

Category leads
arena·GLM 5.1knowledge·GLM 5.1math·GLM 5.1
Hype vs Reality
GLM 5.1
#84 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-4 (older v0314)
#81 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
22.2x better value than GPT-4 (older v0314)
GLM 5.1
27.1 pts/$
$2.00/M
GPT-4 (older v0314)
1.2 pts/$
$45.00/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GLM 5.1GPT-4 (older v0314)
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 5.1 leads by +178.8
GLM 5.1
1464.6
GPT-4 (older v0314)
1285.8
GPQA diamond
GLM 5.1 leads by +72.2
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GLM 5.1
86.5
GPT-4 (older v0314)
14.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GLM 5.1 leads by +92.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GLM 5.1
93.3
GPT-4 (older v0314)
0.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 5.1GPT-4 (older v0314)
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1464.61285.8
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
86.514.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
93.30.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 5.1$0.97$3.04205K tokens (~102 books)$14.83
OpenAI logoGPT-4 (older v0314)$30.00$60.008K tokens (~4 books)$375.00