GLM 5 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare GLM 5 by Zhipu AI against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, context windows of 203K vs 66K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GLM 5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GLM 5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GLM 5
Input
$0.80
Output
$2.56
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
5.3× cheaper
Output
$1.50
1.7× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 5.3× input, 1.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct uses 58.9x more emoji
GLM 5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
54%Vocabulary52%
17wSentence Length16w
0.37Hedging0.20
6.3Bold5.8
4.7Lists3.7
0.00Emoji0.59
0.60Headings0.96
0.18Transitions0.05
Based on 22 + 20 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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