Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
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Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B vs Z.ai: GLM 5
Compare Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B by Qwen against Z.ai: GLM 5 by Zhipu AI, in 15 community votes, z.ai: glm 5 wins 64% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 262K vs 203K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B or Z.ai: GLM 5?
Z.ai: GLM 5 is the better choice overall, winning 64% of 15 blind community votes on Rival. Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs $0.6/M input tokens vs $0.8/M for Z.ai: GLM 5. Context windows: 262K vs 203K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B and Z.ai: GLM 5
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B is made by qwen while Z.ai: GLM 5 is from zhipu. Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B has a 262K token context window compared to Z.ai: GLM 5's 203K. On pricing, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs $0.6/M input tokens vs $0.8/M for Z.ai: GLM 5. 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. Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads in Web Design, while Z.ai: GLM 5 leads in Conversation, Analysis, Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 15+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Reasoning: Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B and Z.ai: GLM 5 are tied
Conversation: Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 75% of votes
Analysis: Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 100% of votes
Image Generation: Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 100% of votes
Web Design: Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Z.ai: GLM 5Winner
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BRunner-up
Pick Z.ai: GLM 5. In 15 blind votes, Z.ai: GLM 5 wins 64% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B for Web Design. Pick Z.ai: GLM 5 for Analysis, Image Generation, Conversation.
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Style Comparison
Similarity
100%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 22.8x more emoji
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Z.ai: GLM 5
54%Vocabulary54%
14wSentence Length17w
0.39Hedging0.37
6.9Bold6.3
4.2Lists4.7
0.23Emoji0.00
0.93Headings0.60
0.17Transitions0.18
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