GLM-5.1 vs Claude Opus 5
Compare GLM-5.1 and Claude Opus 5 side-by-side. See comparisons of price, response speed, accuracy, and file support to choose the best model for your task.
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GLM-5.1 vs Claude Opus 5 Overview
Everything you need to know about these AI models, including capabilities, performance, pricing, and technical details.
Z AI / GLM-5.1
proDescription
Z.ai's flagship for agentic engineering, built to keep working rather than answer quickly. Z.ai says GLM-5.1 can run autonomously on a single task for up to eight hours, planning, executing, and revising as it goes. Strong on coding, office documents, and creative writing. Text only, with no image input, and a context window smaller than the largest frontier models. Open weights under an MIT licence.
Anthropic / Claude Opus 5
maxDescription
Anthropic's newest Opus model, and the successor to Opus 4.8. Opus 5 reaches near-frontier intelligence at the same price as the model it replaces, and lets you set how hard it works per task. It reasons before answering by default, checks its own output, and reads text and images across a very large context. Built for long-horizon coding and agentic work that runs with little supervision.
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Z AI / GLM-5.1
proCoding For Hours
Z.ai optimised it for agentic coding, with long-horizon planning, stepwise execution, and course correction mid-task. Suited to real engineering work with several stages and strong dependencies, rather than isolated snippets.
Thinking On Off
Reasoning is enabled by default and can be switched off entirely. Z.ai describes stronger instruction following, richer multi-turn responses, and better long-context understanding than the previous generation.
Mid-Size Context Window
A mid-size context window. Comfortable for long reports, contracts, and codebases, though a fraction of the capacity of the largest frontier models, so very big corpora need splitting.
Documents And Fiction
Z.ai highlights improvements across PowerPoint, Word, PDF, and Excel tasks, with better layout, plus stronger literary expression, plot development, and style control for fiction and copywriting.
Open-Ended Instructions
Z.ai reports stronger performance on open-ended questions, complex instruction-following, and multi-turn interactions, with more complete answers. Well-suited to everyday assistance and multi-stage information work.
Text Only Input
Z.ai's documentation lists GLM-5.1 as text-in, text-out. It does not accept images, audio, or video. Screenshots, diagrams, and scanned pages are outside what it can read.
Anthropic / Claude Opus 5
maxSelf-Verifying Coding
Anthropic's strongest coding model. It produces code with minimal oversight, then checks its own work, catching and fixing its own mistakes before handing the result back rather than waiting to be corrected.
Effort You Set
A per-task effort dial from low to high. Low returns faster and cheaper on simple work; high lets the model reason as long as a hard problem needs. Thinking is on by default.
Consistent Full-Window Context
A very large context window with no smaller default. Anthropic states instruction following, tool calling, and reasoning stay consistent across the whole window, which matters for large codebases and long agent runs.
Enterprise Knowledge Work
Built for high-stakes enterprise and knowledge work. Suited to tasks where the output has to be right the first time rather than merely drafted, alongside its coding and agentic strengths.
Long-Horizon Agentic Work
Carries multi-step tasks through to completion with limited supervision, filling gaps in incomplete instructions, testing as it goes, and recovering from its own errors without a nudge.
Text And Image Input
Reads text and images in the same prompt, so you can send screenshots, diagrams, or scanned pages alongside your question. Output is text only. Audio and video are not accepted.
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