GLM-5-3 (Flagship) vs Qwen 2.5 Max

A direct, empirical evaluation of GLM-5-3 (Flagship) (Zhipu AI & THUDM) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).

GLM-5-3 (Flagship)

Developed by Zhipu AI & THUDM · 744B parameters

Complex algorithmic reasoning, multi-step code synthesis, and long-horizon tool execution.

Qwen 2.5 Max

Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters

Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.

Metric GLM-5-3 (Flagship) Qwen 2.5 Max
SWE-bench Verified 54.8% 51.4%
MMLU-Pro 78.4% 77.2%
MATH-500 93.6% 89.4%
Context Window 256,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.55 $1.60
Output Pricing (per 1M) $2.19 $6.40