Z.ai: GLM 5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare Z.ai: GLM 5 by Zhipu AI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B by Qwen, in 15 community votes, z.ai: glm 5 wins 64% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 203K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Z.ai: GLM 5 or Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B?
Z.ai: GLM 5 is the better choice overall, winning 64% of 15 blind community votes on Rival. Z.ai: GLM 5 costs $0.8/M input tokens vs $0.6/M for Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. Context windows: 203K vs 262K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Z.ai: GLM 5 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Z.ai: GLM 5 is made by zhipu while Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B is from qwen. Z.ai: GLM 5 has a 203K token context window compared to Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B's 262K. On pricing, Z.ai: GLM 5 costs $0.8/M input tokens vs $0.6/M for Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. In community voting, In 15 community votes, Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 64% of head-to-head duels.
In 15 community votes, Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 64% of head-to-head duels. Z.ai: GLM 5 leads in Conversation, Analysis, Image Generation, while Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads in Web Design. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 15+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Z.ai: GLM 5. In 15 blind votes, Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 64% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Z.ai: GLM 5 for Analysis, Image Generation, Conversation. Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B for Web Design.
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Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 22.8x more emoji
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