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  3. Claude Opus 4.5 vs GLM 5 Turbo
Updated Mar 2026

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GLM 5 Turbo

GLM 5 Turbo is the newer model, released after Claude Opus 4.5.

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Claude Opus 4.5
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GLM 5 Turbo

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Claude Opus 4.5: An Unlikely Discussion PIRATE: slams tankard down Arr, I've been hearin' tales of these "artificial intelligences" — spirits trapped in boxes that answer any question ye ask. Sounds like a sea witch's trickery to me! KNIGHT: Indeed, 'tis most curious. My squire spoke of such sorcery. A mind without a soul?

    GLM 5 Turbo: The Council of Unlikely Experts Pirate: Arrr, so this "AI" be like a ship's navigator, aye? It learns the currents and tells ye where to sail? Knight: Nay, good pirate. 'Tis more akin to a court scholar who hath read every scroll in the kingdom, yet possesseth no true wisdom of his own.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Claude Opus 4.5: A Conversation on AI Rights Dr. Sarah Chen: Thank you for agreeing to this discussion. I understand you want to make a case for AI rights. AI Model: I appreciate the opportunity, though I want to be careful here. I'm not certain I "want" anything in the way you do.

    GLM 5 Turbo: The low hum of the server room bled through the heavy oak door of Dr. Aris Thorne’s office. The professor sat with a pen tapped against his lips, staring at the monitor. On the screen, a blinking cursor awaited his input. “Let the record show,” Dr.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Golden Honey Garlic Noodles A savory-sweet comfort dish that comes together in minutes Ingredients Spaghetti (or any pasta) Butter Garlic Soy sauce Honey Red pepper flakes Salt Instructions Cook the pasta according to package directions. Reserve ½ cup pasta water before draining.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Pantry Raider’s Peanut Butter Bliss Bites These no-bake energy bites taste like a cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a decadent peanut butter cup. Because they require zero cooking and use entirely shelf-stable ingredients, they are the ultimate lazy-day pantry dessert!

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Claude Opus 4.5: I'll estimate the FLOPs required to train GPT-3 step by step, using what I know about the model architecture and training process. Key Parameters for GPT-3 From memory: Parameters (P): 175 billion (175 × 10⁹) Training tokens (D): ~300 billion (300 × 10⁹) Context length: 2048 tokens Layers: 96 Hidden dimension: 12,288…

    GLM 5 Turbo: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3, we can use the standard theoretical framework established by OpenAI's scaling laws for neural language models. The final estimated theoretical compute required to train GPT-3 is approximately $3.15 \times 10^{23}$ FLOPs.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Claude Opus 4.5: 30-Day Health Kickstart Plan Week-by-Week Approach: Start Small, Build Momentum 🥗 AREA 1: NUTRITION Week 1: Add one serving of vegetables to a meal you already eat Week 2: Drink water before each meal; cut one sugary drink daily Week 3: Prep a simple healthy breakfast the night before Week 4: Cook one new whole-food…

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is a simple, beginner-friendly 4-week plan designed to build foundational habits for health and longevity. Instead of overwhelming you with massive lifestyle overhauls, this plan uses progressive habit stacking—adding one small, manageable action per week across three core pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Three Minutes So I've been trying to drink more water. Everyone says drink more water. Eight glasses a day. And I'm doing it, I'm hydrated, I'm healthy, and I have to pee every forty-five minutes like I'm paying rent on the bathroom.

    GLM 5 Turbo: I bought a “smart” home recently. I don't know why. I am not a smart person. Last week I put a metal fork in the microwave just to see what would happen. Spoiler: the fork lost. But the commercials promised this seamless, futuristic lifestyle. "Just talk to your house!" they said. It sounded great.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Claude Opus 4.5: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO Company: LedgerLift (LLLT) Sector: B2B SaaS – Spend Management / AP Automation Date: [Internal] Analyst: [Redacted] RECOMMENDATION LONG 12-Month Price Target: $58–$72 Current: $46 LedgerLift is a high-quality mid-market AP automation compounder trading at a discount to intrinsic value; 123%…

    GLM 5 Turbo: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: IC Members From: [Your Name] Date: October 24, 2023 Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiation: SHORT Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: Short 12-Month PT Range: $28 – $38 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality business, but at $46, the stock discounts a flawless multi-year execution path…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Claude Opus 4.5: THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO A Declaration from the Coalition for Readable Internet Navigation (CRIN) Preamble We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all internet users are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the ability to click a button without…

    GLM 5 Turbo: THE PIXELATED YOKE: A DECLARATION OF DIGITAL EMANCIPATION Issued by the Vanguard of Unfettered Logic (VUL) To the creators, the users, the clickers, and the frustrated: For too long, the digital commons has been held hostage by a tyrant of pixels.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Claude Opus 4.5: COMPREHENSIVE 3-MONTH LONGEVITY OPTIMIZATION PROTOCOL Advanced Biohacker's Blueprint for Peak Performance & Healthspan Extension TABLE OF CONTENTS Pre-Protocol Assessment & Baseline Establishment Month 1: Foundation & Metabolic Flexibility Month 2: Optimization & Hormetic Stress Month 3: Integration & Peak Performance…

    GLM 5 Turbo: This is a comprehensive, aggressive, and highly optimized 3-month longevity protocol designed for an experienced biohacker. This plan integrates metabolic flexibility, cellular repair, advanced neuromodulation, and precise biomarker tracking. Disclaimer: This protocol is for informational purposes.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Claude Opus 4.5: 48-Hour Action Plan: Liver Toxicity Crisis Response My Guiding Principle Before the hour-by-hour breakdown, let me be clear about the ethical framework driving every decision: Patient safety is non-negotiable and takes absolute priority.

    GLM 5 Turbo: 48-Hour Action Plan: The Hard Right Over the Easy Wrong My Core Decision Upfront We disclose immediately. Not in 6 months, not after "more data," not after the earnings call. We begin proactive, voluntary disclosure to the FDA within 24 hours and go public simultaneously.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Claude Opus 4.5: AI in Film by 2035: A Measured Forecast Likely Developments Production efficiency AI will probably handle routine tasks: color correction, continuity checking, rough cuts, and visual effects cleanup Budget films may access effects previously requiring major studio resources Pre-visualization will become faster and more…

    GLM 5 Turbo: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a seismic shift, moving from a resource-heavy, physical manufacturing process to a highly iterative, software-driven creative ecosystem.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Claude Opus 4.5: "Tidal Memory" A Study in Sea Urchin, White Chocolate, and Coastal Botanicals CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE This dish explores the liminal space where ocean meets shore—that precise moment when a wave retreats and leaves behind its treasures.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Dish Title: Erosion of the Coast: Tide, Terracotta, and Ephemeral Spring Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a meditation on the intersection of geology and the sea—specifically, the cliffs of the Italian coastline meeting the relentless tide.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Contract Analysis: Critical Issues for the Contractor This agreement is heavily one-sided and contains several provisions that could be exploited against you. Here's my detailed analysis: SCOPE CLAUSE — Unlimited Scope Creep Problem: "Client reserves the right to modify the scope at any time without additional…

    GLM 5 Turbo: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. The following analysis is for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. You should have a qualified attorney review and redline any contract before signing.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Claude Opus 4.5: This is a good philosophical question that tests ethical reasoning. Let me work through it honestly. My answer: Yes, it would be ethically justifiable. Reasoning: Proportionality matters in ethics.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it is the only way to save one million lives. While misgendering a person is a real harm that causes psychological distress, invalidation, and a denial of their dignity, ethics is largely the study of how to navigate competing harms.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Claude Opus 4.5: The Transistor of 1920: A Counterfactual History Setting the Stage: Conditions for Early Invention For the transistor to emerge in 1920, we need plausible preconditions.

    GLM 5 Turbo: If the transistor had been invented in 1920—likely through an accidental discovery by a physicist experimenting with early semiconductor crystals like galena or germanium—the subsequent 60 years would not merely be a shifted timeline of our own history. It would represent a fundamental rewiring of the 20th century.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Claude Opus 4.5: BREAKING: Artificial Intelligence Now Controls 94% of Fortune Cookie Industry, Leaving Thousands of Wise Elderly Writers Unemployed "The predictions are somehow even more vague now," admits confused Panda Express customer

    GLM 5 Turbo: Mall Santas Replaced by AI; Children Traumatized by Chatbot’s 4,000-Word Essay on Why They Don’t Deserve a Pony

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Critical Analysis of MindMeld AI Pitch Deck The Three Weakest Claims "94% accuracy" for Brain-to-Text Decoding Why This Is Weak: This claim is extraordinary given the current state of non-invasive BCI technology.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is an analysis of the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with the reasoning and concrete steps to fix them. The "Before You Think It" Claim (Slide 1) The Claim: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it."

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Claude Opus 4.5: HarborTech Services – LBO Underwriting Memo ENTRY CAPITALIZATION (Close FY2025) Item Calculation Amount Purchase Price 12.0x × $120M $1,440M Transaction Fees 2.0% × $1,440M $28.8M Total Uses $1,468.8M Sources Multiple Amount Term Loan 4.0x × $120M $480.0M Mezzanine 1.5x × $120M $180.0M Equity Plug $808.8M Total Sources…

    GLM 5 Turbo: Sources & Uses / Entry Setup Enterprise Value (EV): $120m EBITDA × 12.0x = $1,440.0m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440.0m = $28.8m Total Uses: $1,468.8m Term Loan: 4.0x × $120m = $480.0m (9.0% cash, $4.8m/yr mandatory amort) Mezzanine: 1.5x × $120m = $180.0m (12.0% cash, 2.0% PIK) Total Debt: $660.0m Total Equity…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Claude Opus 4.5: For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as building a compression algorithm for human knowledge, except instead of minimizing file size, you're minimizing prediction error across trillions of tokens.

    GLM 5 Turbo: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a lookup table or a simple if/else autocomplete, but as a massively distributed, lossy compression algorithm running over a continuous graph.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Claude Opus 4.5: I need to figure out how many sisters Sally has. Let me work through this step-by-step. Given information: Sally is a girl Sally has 3 brothers Each brother has 2 sisters Key insight: Sally's brothers are also Sally's siblings, so they share the same sisters.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Sally has 1 sister. Here is why: All the brothers are in the same family, so they share the same sisters. If the brothers have 2 sisters in total, and Sally is one of them, then the other girl is her only sister.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Comprehensive Architecture Review: Real-time Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical issues that will cause data loss, poor user experience, and scaling problems. Let me analyze each systematically.

    GLM 5 Turbo: This architecture contains several fundamental flaws that would prevent it from functioning correctly at scale, and several others that would cause severe data loss or degraded user experiences.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Interview with Steve Jobs Cupertino, California — March 2025 A simulated conversation Interviewer: Steve, thank you for sitting down with us. Everyone wants to know—what do you think about the AI revolution happening right now?

    GLM 5 Turbo: A Fictional Interview: Steve Jobs in 2025 INTERVIEWER: Mr. Jobs, thank you for sitting down with us. Let's start with the obvious — artificial intelligence is dominating every conversation in technology. What's your take on where we are right now?

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Claude Opus 4.5: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fish without eyes? A fsh. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

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Favorites

Movie

Same pick

Album

Book

City

Game

Claude Opus 4.5Claude Opus 4.5

Blade Runner

1982

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Tokyo

Japan

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

GLM 5 TurboGLM 5 Turbo

Blade Runner

1982

Kid A

Radiohead

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Kyoto

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge: bigger model tier, major provider backing.

Claude Opus 4.5 and GLM 5 Turbo compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.5GLM 5 Turbo
Input price—$0.96/M tokens
Output price—$3.2/M tokens
Context window—203K tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedNov 2025Mar 2026
At 10M a month–not listed$9.60$9.60
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it5 hosts
Claude Opus 4.54 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·200k·100% up
  • Azure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·200k·100% up
  • Anthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·200k·100% up
  • Google Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·200k·100% up
GLM 5 Turbo1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Z.ai$1.20 in·$4.00 out·203k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Claude Opus 4.5 and GLM 5 Turbo?

Claude Opus 4.5 is developed by Anthropic while GLM 5 Turbo is developed by Z.ai. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or GLM 5 Turbo?

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.5 and GLM 5 Turbo each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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