Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5

GLM-5 ranks first on EvalPlus.

Z.ai Released 11 Feb 2026 Family GLM-5 The lab's model card
110
Benchmarks with a score
1
Ranked first, out of five or more models
6
In the top three
Z.ai Feb 2026

GLM-5

Open weights Flagship

145.8 #89 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • SWE-bench Verified 72.1% #22 /32
  • IFBench 72% #33 /70
  • Terminal-Bench 2.0 52.4% #16 /43

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Judgemark v2.1 85.6 #4 of 42 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 86% #27 of 212 Official leaderboard
LongBench v2 64.5% #4 of 27 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,457 #51 of 333 Official leaderboard
MMLU 88.3% #25 of 127 Model card
BIG-Bench Hard 87.4% #14 of 71 Model card
HellaSwag 88.1% #10 of 47 Model card
Humanity's Last Exam 50.4% #35 of 147 Model card
PIQA 84.6% #8 of 33 Model card
MultiChallenge 64.8% #11 of 36 Model card
EQ-Bench 3 1,495 #24 of 78 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 70.9 #39 of 119 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 36.9% #20 of 59 Model card
TriviaQA 80.9% #16 of 39 Model card
Creative Writing v3 70.6 #50 of 120 Official leaderboard
CL-bench 18.7% #11 of 24 Official leaderboard
Chinese SimpleQA 75.2% #6 of 13 Model card
IFBench 72% #33 of 70 Model card
Extended NYT Connections 74.8% #46 of 97 Official leaderboard
SkateBench v2 66.7% #10 of 21 Official leaderboard
C3 80.3% #3 of 6 Model card
C-Eval 88.8% #20 of 38 Model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 10.1% #60 of 104 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 28% #74 of 122 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 20% #71 of 107 Official leaderboard
CLUEWSC 84.2% #6 of 8 Model card
LOCA-Bench 4.00% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard
IF-Badcase 83.2% #1 of 1 Model card
MENT-SNS 1013.0 #1 of 1 Model card
Slide generation human evaluation (Z.ai) 67.5% #1 of 1 Model card
Translation Human Scoring (Z.ai) 3.12 #1 of 1 Model card
ZMultiDialBench 8.57 #1 of 1 Model card
ZMultiTransBench 1050.0 #1 of 1 Model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIME 2025 96.7% #4 of 53 Official leaderboard
BRUMO 2025 99.2% #4 of 42 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2025 97.9% #6 of 49 Model card
General365 59.9% #3 of 23 Official leaderboard
HMMT Nov 2025 94.2% #3 of 22 Official leaderboard
CMIMC 2025 93.1% #5 of 33 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 91% #8 of 40 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 87.8% #58 of 219 Epoch AI
AIME 2026 96.7% #9 of 31 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 80% #88 of 202 Epoch AI
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 10.9% #21 of 47 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 16.4% #33 of 70 Epoch AI
SimpleBench 53.2% #49 of 100 Official leaderboard
IMO-AnswerBench 82.5% #19 of 37 Model card
MATH 56.4% #56 of 93 Model card
ForecastBench 63.6 #55 of 86 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 2.10% #38 of 55 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI-2 4.86% #67 of 95 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 44.7% #67 of 92 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2026 86.4% #23 of 31 Official leaderboard
Echo General AI Prediction Leaderboard 984 #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
GSM8K 68.8% #68 of 87 Model card
USAMO 2026 35.1% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
EvalPlus 87% #1 of 6 Model card
IOI (Vals) 22% #20 of 55 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 48.2% #51 of 112 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 73.3% #33 of 70 Model card
OJBench 54.9% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
OpenHands Index 49.4% #17 of 33 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,436 #59 of 105 Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,436 #71 of 124 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 766 #75 of 121 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 23.4% #78 of 115 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 72.1% #22 of 32 Epoch AI
PostTrainBench 13.9% #16 of 23 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench 34.4% #57 of 73 Model card
SWE Atlas 20.5% #18 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Refactoring 24.2% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 28.7% #19 of 22 Official leaderboard
CC-Bench-V2 Backend 25.8% #1 of 1 Model card
CC-Bench-V2 Frontend 74.8% #1 of 1 Model card
CC-Bench-V2 Large Repo Exploration 65.6% #1 of 1 Model card
CC-Bench-V2 Multi-Step Chained Tasks 52.3% #1 of 1 Model card
SWE-rebench 42.1% #1 of 1 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 31 #35 of 183 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 76.2% #10 of 48 Official leaderboard
tau2-bench 89.7% #16 of 69 Model card
Claw-Eval-Live 61.9% #3 of 12 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp-ZH 72.7% #5 of 17 Model card
Terminal-Bench 2.0 52.4% #16 of 43 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 39.2% #20 of 50 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 986.8 #56 of 133 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 75.9% #38 of 77 Model card
MCP Atlas 67.8% #28 of 40 Model card
LLM Chess -299 #102 of 124 Official leaderboard
tau3-bench 81% #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
Pencil Puzzle Bench 0% #46 of 53 Official leaderboard
τ³-bench Banking 9.79% #24 of 25 Official leaderboard
ToolCall-Badcase 95.8% #1 of 1 Model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LegalBench 84.1% #42 of 138 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 62.9% #48 of 119 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent 53.2% #21 of 49 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $5,582 #16 of 32 Official leaderboard
SpreadsheetBench 2 17.1% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $4,432 #38 of 66 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 70% #88 of 129 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 43.3% #52 of 72 Official leaderboard
FORTE 60.7% #17 of 21 Official leaderboard
CaseLaw v2 52.5% #45 of 53 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA 1,409 #14 of 16 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
KORA 40.6% #22 of 42 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 71.2% #23 of 42 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 43.2% #19 of 33 Official leaderboard
BinaryAudit 19.3% #12 of 20 Official leaderboard
SEC-bench Pro 3.80% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
SEC-bench Pro 260617 3.80% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 50.0 #2 of 5 Model card

Z.ai's models over time

Z.ai's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-4.7

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 34 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

Cyber risk