Zhipu AI's flagship fifth-generation model.
Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 78.6). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
GLM 5 has a lower blended cost. GLM 5: $0.95 input / $2.55 output. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: GLM 5 supports 205K tokens vs Claude Sonnet 5 at 1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but GLM 5 does not.
Key differences: GLM 5 is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both GLM 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.