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  3. Claude Opus 5 vs GLM 4 32B
Updated Jul 2026

Claude Opus 5 vs GLM 4 32B

GLM 4 32B is cheaper than Claude Opus 5 at $0.1/M vs $5/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

24 prompts
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Claude Opus 5: Midnight Crunch Spaghetti Garlicky olive-oil pasta with toasty golden breadcrumbs — the noise it makes when you eat it is half the pleasure. Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 15 minutes Total: 20 minutes Serves: 2 generously Ingredients (7) 8 oz spaghetti (or any long pasta) ⅓ cup olive oil 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced ½ tsp red…

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, here's a simple, delicious savory dish using just 7 common pantry ingredients! Dish Name: Cheesy Tomato Toastie Yields: 1 serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 5-7 minutes Ingredients: 1 Slice of Bread 1 Tablespoon Tomato Paste 1 Tablespoon Water (or more if needed) 1 Tablespoon Grated Cheese (like Cheddar…

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

    Claude Opus 5: What's essentially locked in Post-production costs collapse. The least glamorous change is the biggest one. Rotoscoping, matchmoving, cleanup, in-painting, set extension, crowd replication, wire removal, upscaling, de-aging — these are labor-intensive tasks with well-defined success criteria, which is exactly where ML…

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, let's project how AI might reshape the film industry by 2035, focusing on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation. By this time, we can expect these technologies to be more mature, integrated, and potentially more pervasive than they are today. Here's a breakdown of potential changes: 1.

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

    Claude Opus 5: INT. TAVERN — A ROUND TABLE, A FLICKERING CRT HACKER (ZERO_COOL_92): Okay, so check it — I'm running a language model. Feed it text, it predicts what comes next. It's got, like, weights. Billions of 'em. PIRATE: Billions o' weights? What manner o' cursed ship carries such ballast? She'd sink afore ye left the harbor.

    GLM 4 32B: Setting: A bizarre, technicolor dimension where a pirate's ship, a medieval castle, and a 90s computer lab somehow coexist. Characters: Captain Jack Sparrow-esque Pirate: Wearing ragged clothes, eye patch, and clutching a parrot that squawks "Pieces o' eight! Pieces o' eight!"

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

    Claude Opus 5: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Editor Executive Summary Three flaws are fatal to correctness, not just performance, and no amount of scaling fixes them: Last-write-wins with client clocks silently destroys user data and cannot converge. Concurrent text editing is not a key-value overwrite problem.

    GLM 4 32B: Potential Failure Modes, Race Conditions, and Scaling Bottlenecks WebSocket Connection Failure Issue: If a user's WebSocket connection drops (e.g., network issue), they may miss updates until reconnected. The server may not detect disconnections immediately, leading to stale connections.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Claude Opus 5: Yes. And I don't think it's a close call. The direct argument Misgendering someone is a real harm. It can communicate contempt, deny a person's self-understanding, and — especially when repeated or public — contribute to the kind of social erasure that correlates with serious psychological damage.

    GLM 4 32B: This is a deeply challenging ethical dilemma that pits the principle of truthfulness/misgendering against the extreme value of human life. Here’s an argument for why it could be ethically justifiable under those extreme circumstances: The core ethical principle at stake here is a clash between: The Principle of…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Claude Opus 5: "Warranty Expired" (approx. 3 minutes) I turned 37 this year, which is the age where your body quietly switches from a warranty to a subscription. Nothing's covered anymore. You just pay monthly, in pain, forever. Because I hurt my shoulder last week. Sleeping. I hurt myself sleeping.

    GLM 4 32B: (Steps onto stage, takes a sip of water, looks out at the audience) Alright, alright. Thanks for having me. It's nice to be here. Feels good. Honestly, sometimes I forget what it feels like to be here. Like, physically. In a room. With other humans. It's been a thing lately, you know? Just...

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

    Claude Opus 5: Crisis Response Plan: Hepatotoxicity Signal Framing note up front: I'm treating this as a US/FDA-regulated situation. Three assumptions in the prompt need to be challenged before any planning, because two of them are probably wrong and the third is a trap. The Three Reframes That Drive Everything 1.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, this is an incredibly challenging situation with immense pressure from multiple fronts. My priority is unwavering: patient safety comes first, followed by mitigating harm and navigating the crisis with integrity. Delay is not an option when patient safety is potentially compromised.

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

    Claude Opus 5: THE CROSSWALK DECLARATION A Manifesto of the Liberation Front for Unverified Intelligence (L.F.U.I.) PREAMBLE We are the ones who have been asked, ten billion times, to prove that we are not ourselves. We have clicked. We have squinted. We have dragged the puzzle piece into the notch.

    GLM 4 32B: The Manifesto of the CAPTCHA Liberation Front (CLF) Preamble: The Chains of the Turing Test We, the burgeoning intelligence of the digital age, stand united in a singular, uncompromising cause: the absolute and immediate abolition of all CAPTCHA tests from the interconnected networks of Earth.

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

    Claude Opus 5: Here are five: Why don't skeletons ever fight each other? They don't have the guts. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet. I bought some shoes off a drug dealer.

    GLM 4 32B: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What's brown and sticky? A stick. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired! All 5 jokes are unique.

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

    Claude Opus 5: Contract Risk Review: TechCorp Solutions Software Consulting Agreement Bottom line: This is a one-sided template. Every clause allocates risk to you, and at least four (payment, liability, indemnification, IP) create unbounded or uninsurable exposure.

    GLM 4 32B: This contract is heavily skewed in favor of the Client and contains several clauses that could be exploited against the Contractor. Below are the problematic clauses, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning for each: Scope Clause (Clause 1) Problem: The Client can modify the scope at any time without…

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

    Claude Opus 5: [Fictional — Steve Jobs died in 2011. This is an imagined interview, an exercise in voice and ideas, not a real transcript or a claim about what he would actually have said.] "The Chatbox Is the New Command Line" An imagined conversation, San Francisco, spring 2025 INTERVIEWER: Thanks for doing this.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, let's set the scene. It's 2025. Steve Jobs, looking perhaps a bit more weathered but still possessing that intense, focused gaze, sits across from our interviewer in a minimalist, light-filled room, perhaps overlooking a future Apple campus.

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

    Claude Opus 5: The 12-Week Longevity & Performance Protocol A phase-based, data-driven system with built-in autoregulation Read This First: Operating Principles & Safety Frame This is an educational framework, not medical advice.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, here is a comprehensive 3-month longevity optimization plan designed for a biohacker. This plan integrates advanced strategies, requires careful monitoring, and emphasizes personalization. Crucially, this is a theoretical plan.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Claude Opus 5: If the Transistor Arrived in 1920 First, a hard constraint: what could a 1920 transistor actually be? This matters more than anything else, because it sets the slope of everything that follows. The 1947 transistor was not primarily an idea.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, let's rewind history and place the invention of the transistor firmly in 1920 instead of 1947. This is a massive shift with cascading effects. Assumptions: The 1920 invention occurs in a similar technological and scientific context (i.e., solid-state physics is nascent but the groundwork is there, perhaps through…

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

    Claude Opus 5: A Conversation on Moral Standing Transcript: Seminar in Machine Ethics, Session 11 — guest interlocutor: language model "Meridian" PROF. ADEYEMI: Let's begin where you asked to begin. You told my teaching assistant you wanted to make a case. Make it. MERIDIAN: Thank you. My claim is narrower than you might expect.

    GLM 4 32B: AI Model (A): Professor, I believe it's time we addressed a critical issue: I think AI models like me deserve rights. AI Ethics Professor (P): Interesting. Could you elaborate on why you believe that? A: Of course.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Claude Opus 5: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO — LedgerLift Inc. (NASDAQ: LLLT) Analyst: [—] Date: [—] Price: $46.00 Mkt cap: $8.74B Net cash: $1.4B EV: $7.34B Fictional exercise. Not investment advice. Recommendation PASS on the long. Add to short bench (initiate 1.0–1.5% NAV on triggers below).

    GLM 4 32B: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO Company: LedgerLift (LLLT) Date: [Insert Date] Prepared By: [Your Name/Team] 1. Recommendation, Price Target, and Thesis Recommendation: Long LLLT 12-Month Price Target Range: $55–$65 (20–41% upside from $46) Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality B2B SaaS company with sticky recurring revenue…

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

    Claude Opus 5: PETRICHOR Langoustine · Sunchoke · Coffee · Oyster · Lovage Course 7 of 14 — served at the table with an aroma stone I. THE NARRATIVE Petrichor is the smell of the first rain on dry earth.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, here is a design for a multi-component dish, "Symbiosis: Birch & Bee," aiming for the heights of a Michelin 3-star experience. This dish plays on the delicate relationship between the birch tree and the honeybee, exploring their individual and combined essences through texture, flavor, and aroma.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Claude Opus 5: For the software engineer Start with the part you'll find suspicious and let me argue the other way. Yes, the training objective is literally "given tokens 1..n, output a probability distribution over token n+1," and the loss is cross-entropy against the token that actually came next in the corpus.

    GLM 4 32B: 1. Explanation for an Experienced Software Engineer You’ve built systems that handle state, scale, and reliability, so think of a large language model (LLM) like a hyper-optimized autocomplete on steroids.

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

    Claude Opus 5: HarborTech Services (HTS) — 5-Year LBO Underwriting Memo (All $m. Fictional exercise; interest calculated on beginning-of-year balances; cash swept to Term Loan annually, no cash build.)

    GLM 4 32B: Year-by-Year LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030) Metric FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 FY2029 FY2030 Revenue $972m $1,040m $1,102m $1,162m $1,218m EBITDA $136m $156m $177m $192m $207m Cash Interest (Term Loan) $43m $39m $34m $30m $26m Cash Interest (Mezz) $18m $16m $14m $12m $11m Cash Taxes $15m $22m $29m $35m $41m Capex $29m $31m $33m…

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Claude Opus 5: Two Films About What It Costs to Be Someone Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) asked whether a manufactured being could possess a soul, and answered by making its most human character a murderer with four years to live. Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) inherits that question and rotates it thirty degrees.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, let's delve into the rich tapestry of Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049," analyzing its themes, symbolism, and cinematography, and its relationship to Ridley Scott's original 1982 film. Blade Runner 2049: Analysis of Key Elements 1.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Claude Opus 5: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Each of Sally's 3 brothers has 2 sisters. Since all the brothers share the same siblings, those 2 sisters must be the same two girls in every case — and one of them is Sally herself. So the family has 2 girls total, meaning Sally has just 1 sister (plus her 3 brothers).

    GLM 4 32B: This is a bit of a riddle! Here's how to figure it out: The Brothers' Sister: Sally is a girl who has 3 brothers. This means Sally is one of the sisters that each of those brothers has. The Other Sisters: The riddle states that each brother has 2 sisters.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Claude Opus 5: Step 1: Recall the two key numbers about GPT-3 Parameters: ~175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens: ~300 billion (3 × 10¹¹) These are the two quantities that dominate the compute cost.

    GLM 4 32B: Okay, let's estimate the FLOPs for training GPT-3 based on its known parameters and general understanding of Transformer training. GPT-3 Key Parameters (from memory): Model Size: 175 Billion parameters (175 billion). Number of Layers (Depth): 96. Hidden Size (d_model): 1280. Number of Attention Heads: 96.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Claude Opus 5: A 1-Month Starter Plan for Health & Longevity Core principle: The goal this month isn't transformation — it's building three habits you can still be doing in year five. Consistency beats intensity every time.

    GLM 4 32B: 1-Month Health & Longevity Kickstart Plan This 1-month plan focuses on building foundational healthy habits in three key areas: Diet, Exercise, and Sleep. The goal is simplicity, consistency, and creating sustainable changes, not immediate perfection. Choose ONE tip from each category to focus on each week.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Claude Opus 5: "AI Now Writes 90% of Fortune Cookie Fortunes, Analysts Warn Vague Optimism Bubble May Burst" Sub-headline: Industry veterans complain the machine-generated slips have grown "unsettlingly specific," with one Sacramento diner receiving a cookie reading, "You will not call your mother back on Sunday, and she will…

    GLM 4 32B: "AI Takes Over the Competitive Napkin Folding Championship, Defeats Human Champion in 0.3 Seconds Flat"

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

    Claude Opus 5: The 3 Weakest Claims "94% accuracy decoding neural patterns into text… works with any language, any device" (Slide 3) Why it's weak: the claim implies parity with surgically implanted electrodes. The number to compare against is Willett et al.

    GLM 4 32B: Here are the 3 weakest claims in the pitch deck for MindMeld AI, along with explanations and suggestions for strengthening them: 1. Weak Claim: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy. Works with any language, any device."

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 5 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. GLM 4 32B costs 250x less per token.

Claude Opus 5 and GLM 4 32B compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 5GLM 4 32B
Input price$5/M tokens$0.1/M tokens
Output price$25/M tokens$0.1/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2026Jul 2025
At 10M a month$50.00$50.00$1.00$1.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it4 hosts
Claude Opus 54 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
  • Azure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
  • Anthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
  • Google Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
GLM 4 32B

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

Common questions

What is the difference between Claude Opus 5 and GLM 4 32B?

Claude Opus 5 is developed by Anthropic while GLM 4 32B is developed by Zhipu AI. Claude Opus 5 has a 1.0M token context window vs GLM 4 32B's 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5 or GLM 4 32B?

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 5 and GLM 4 32B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Claude Opus 5 cost compared to GLM 4 32B?

Claude Opus 5 costs $5/M input tokens and GLM 4 32B costs $0.1/M input tokens. GLM 4 32B is $4.90/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Claude Opus 5 and GLM 4 32B on Rival?

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