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Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-05-12.

Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendorz-aianthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-80.0
Input Price$1.20/M$3.00/M
Output Price$4.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window202,7521,000,000
Max Output131,072128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-85.3
ai_index_agentic-100.0
ai_index_coding-84.1
aider_polyglot-61.3

Who wins by task?

TaskZ.ai: GLM 5V TurboAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 129 181
Code Review 124 177
Code Completion 115 118
Code Refactoring 124 172
Bug Fixing 128 194
Unit Test Generation 120 163
Code Documentation 123 144
Regex Writing 119 139
CI/CD Pipelines 116 152
Frontend Component Design 122 153
Data Analysis 124 184
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 125 158
ETL Scripting 120 162
JSON Extraction 123 141
Bulk Data Labeling 120 123
OCR / Document Parsing 127 150
Table Extraction from PDFs 127 150
Long-Document Summarization 125 166
Short-Form Summarization 115 123
Blog Post Writing 117 145

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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