Compare / Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 5.3 Flash

18 results from 4 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · profile
GLM 5.3 Flash
Z.ai · profile
Results compared
18
Shared sources
4
BenchmarkMetricClaude Sonnet 4.6GLM 5.3 Flash
APEX-AgentsreportedTasks passed% of tasks 43.0%52.8%
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4611,467
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4821,463
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4491,433
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5061,510
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4751,474
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4721,474
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4551,450
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 63.071.5
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 30.141.8
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 87.5%91.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 33.6%39.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 80.0%80.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedSciCode% of problems 50.1%51.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 71.2%84.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks 3.0%32.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 34.4%47.2%
GDP.pdfreportedProfessional document tasks% of rubric 18.0%14.0%

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.