Zhipu AI

GLM-5

6.3/10

Same model as GLM-5 in Language Models, listed again here because it’s used as a coding model and scored on that rubric. It counts once in the directory’s totals.

Maker
Zhipu AI
Origin
China
Released
Jan 20, 2026

Strengths & weaknesses

  • Resolves 72.8% of SWE-bench Verified issues, the best open-weights result measured in this directory
  • Open weights served by several independent hosts, so a team can run it inside its own environment
  • Rated below the closed frontier tiers on the WebDev arena
  • A 200k-token context is limiting next to the million-token tiers when working across a large codebase

Evaluation

100% of weight measured

Scored on GLM-5 · sources as of Sep 26, 2026

Confidence band 6.3–6.4 · a model inside this range isn’t meaningfully apart from this one

Price & availability

Measured the same way, deliberately kept out of the score: what a model costs doesn’t change what it can do.

w = weight, each criterion’s share of the overall score. Missing marks don’t count for or against. How scoring works

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