Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.1

GLM-5.1 places in the top three on 11 benchmarks.

Z.ai Released April 7th, 2026 Family GLM-5 The lab's model card Compare with others
155
Benchmarks with a score
0
Ranked first, out of five or more models
11
In the top three
Z.ai Apr 2026

GLM-5.1

Open weights Flagship

150.7 #68 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 153.6 #70 of 404
  • SWE-bench Verified 74.2% #16 /32
  • AutomationBench 6.20% #31 /42
  • NL2Repo-Bench 42.7% #20 /30

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
LMArena (Elo) 1,465 #46 of 335 Official leaderboard
Structured Output Benchmark 86.6% #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,539 #13 of 78 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 52.3% #34 of 154 Lab model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 73.5 #31 of 119 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 72.2 #44 of 120 Official leaderboard
EvoArena SWE-Chain-Evo 36.1% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
EvoArena Terminal-Bench-Evo 55.3% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 67.2 #18 of 40 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 77.7% #48 of 103 Official leaderboard
CompassArena 1,006 #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
EvoArena PersonaMem-Evo 50.4% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 66.9 #38 of 71 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 34% #64 of 94 Epoch AI run
BullshitBench V2 22% #88 of 129 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,141 #53 of 77 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing -1.08 #35 of 50 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 37.9% #42 of 49 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 89.9% #49 of 229 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath 33.5% #13 of 55 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 93.3% #58 of 212 Epoch AI run
HMMT Nov 2025 94% #8 of 28 Lab model card
Echo General AI Prediction Leaderboard 1,005 #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
MathArena Apex Shortlist 71.8% #13 of 38 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 12.5% #19 of 55 Epoch AI run
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 11.5% #20 of 47 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 95.8% #14 of 31 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 22.2% #28 of 59 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2026 89.4% #15 of 31 Official leaderboard
IMO-AnswerBench 83.8% #18 of 37 Lab model card
SimpleBench 55.1% #52 of 106 Official leaderboard
ResearchClawBench 18.2 #12 of 23 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 36.8% #60 of 86 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 6.67% #15 of 18 Official leaderboard
HorizonMath 1.80% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Project Euler (MathArena) 67.2% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DesignArena Website 1,263 #42 of 151 Official leaderboard
QwenSVG 1,605 #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,256 #41 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,258 #36 of 118 Official leaderboard
LiveSQLBench 29% #11 of 36 Official leaderboard
EvoCode-Bench 36.2% #4 of 13 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,261 #45 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,209 #33 of 103 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,260 #45 of 139 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 57.1% #37 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,234 #46 of 136 Official leaderboard
OpenHands Index 58.2% #12 of 33 Official leaderboard
Claw-SWE-Bench 73.1% #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,646 #50 of 126 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,508 #43 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
SWE-Bench Pro 58.4% #34 of 81 Lab model card
RoadmapBench 18.3% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,508 #59 of 128 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 74.2% #16 of 32 Epoch AI run
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,173 #24 of 46 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,154 #42 of 74 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,145 #28 of 49 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 25.8% #47 of 78 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,154 #34 of 56 Official leaderboard
FeatureBench 44.2% #10 of 16 Official leaderboard
FeatureBench Lite 44.2% #10 of 16 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 31.5% #78 of 120 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 63.2% #21 of 32 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,158 #35 of 53 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 42.7% #20 of 30 Lab model card
ContextBench 23.6% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
QwenWebDev 1,564 #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
FrogsGame post-training task 0.40% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 34.5% #46 of 65 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,111 #20 of 27 Official leaderboard
ParallelKernelBench 6.90% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE v1 25.7% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon 1.00% #10 of 12 Official leaderboard
SlopCodeBench 13.8% #19 of 22 Official leaderboard
GameCraft-Bench 18.3% #13 of 15 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Godot Game Dev 1,039 #22 of 24 Official leaderboard
EvoCode-Bench v2 5.90% #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
SWE-Together 52% #21 of 22 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PinchBench 80.9% #2 of 48 Official leaderboard
LiveClawBench 74.7% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 69% #8 of 63 Lab model card
SkillsBench 58.4% #4 of 22 Official leaderboard
TERMS-Bench 0.69 #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval Pass^3 62.3% #6 of 24 Official leaderboard
QwenClawBench 58.7% #3 of 12 Official leaderboard
ClawProBench 62.9% #14 of 49 Official leaderboard
VitaBench 2.0 42.3% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
GAIA 68.8% #20 of 64 Official leaderboard
PACT 1,554 #9 of 26 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 26 #67 of 188 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 79.3% #29 of 81 Lab model card
Toolathlon 40.7% #18 of 50 Official leaderboard
Clocktower Radio 1,655 #9 of 23 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval 77.3% #10 of 24 Official leaderboard
TUA-Bench 48.1% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
tau3-bench 70.6% #6 of 14 Lab model card
ClawBench V2 34.6% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
WildClawBench 48.2% #14 of 31 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 75.6% #21 of 37 Official leaderboard
CivBench 1,482 #12 of 19 Official leaderboard
DeepTerminalBench 30% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 60% #42 of 57 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 6.20% #31 of 42 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 20% #71 of 93 Epoch AI run
EdgeBench 37.4 #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
Gaia2-CLI 50.5% #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 26.7% #22 of 25 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $0 #18 of 19 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 58.6% #13 of 13 Official leaderboard
ToolcallFormatIFBench 60.1% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vals Finance Agent 57.7% #10 of 49 Official leaderboard
Workspace-Bench-Lite 61% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
FORTE 73.8% #5 of 21 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 84.4% #33 of 138 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v1 57.9% #10 of 34 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 64.5% #38 of 119 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $1,510,772 #19 of 59 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,200 #15 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $5,634 #29 of 67 Official leaderboard
CHI-Bench 18.7% #11 of 23 Official leaderboard
MedCode 41.6% #50 of 96 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 61.8% #29 of 50 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,150 #21 of 36 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 71.2% #76 of 129 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 2.26 #12 of 19 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,066 #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 27.9% #63 of 93 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 44.8% #57 of 80 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 40.9% #48 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
APEX-Agents 1.1 56.8% #52 of 65 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 11.5% #25 of 31 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 72.3% #80 of 97 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 41.6% #60 of 72 Official leaderboard
CaseLaw v2 51.5% #48 of 53 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 0% #73 of 80 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 52.4% #66 of 71 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MineBench 1,501 #39 of 75 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,443 #42 of 56 Official leaderboard
AgentWorldBench 51.3 #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
QwenWorldBench 50.2% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberGym 84% #9 of 34 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 75.2 #74 of 185 Official leaderboard
CRSBench 68.6% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Permit 99.4% #35 of 69 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 50.3% #43 of 71 Official leaderboard
BiomniBench 60.4 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
ExploitBench 18% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
HelpBench 82% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 23.7% #52 of 69 Official leaderboard
EvalDetectBench 0.78 #9 of 10 Official leaderboard
ExploitGym 0.46% #18 of 18 Official leaderboard
SecCodeBench 49% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 27.6 #39 of 68 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 58.0 #46 of 67 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 153.6, 2.9 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 13 capability results Z.ai reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 151.3 to 155.9. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 7 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap What differs
CyberGym 68.7% CyberGym 84% Leaderboard, dynamic, Xuanwu Atuin AI −15 pts The lab uses Claude Code, while the board pairs GLM-5.1 with Tencent's Xuanwu Atuin AI agent.
HMMT 2026 82.6% HMMT Feb. 2026 89.4% Leaderboard −6.8 pts
MCP Atlas 71.8% MCP-Atlas (Public Set) 75.6% Leaderboard −3.8 pts
GPQA Diamond 86.2% GPQA-Diamond 89.9% Epoch AI run −3.7 pts
AIME 2026 95.3% AIME 2026 95.8% Leaderboard −0.5 pts
Toolathlon 40.7% Tool-Decathlon 40.7% Leaderboard Same
Vending-Bench 2 $5,634 Vending Bench 2 $5,634 Leaderboard Same

Z.ai's models over time

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

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

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

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