Comparing 2 models

GPT-6.1 Sol vs GLM 5.2

Benchmarks through

Verdict

GPT-6.1 Sol places higher on 3 of the 4 tasks where both are ranked. GLM 5.2 costs 58.7x less per input token. GPT-6.1 Sol accepts 1.0x more context. Only GLM 5.2 has open weights for self-hosting.

  • Choose GPT-6.1 Sol for Structured Data Extraction (#2), JSON & Schema Output (#2), AI Agents (#5).
  • Choose GLM 5.2 for Code Completion (#6), you need to self-host.

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1GPT-6.1 Sol
Model 2GLM 5.2
Best for
Image Understanding (#1)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#2)
Provider
openai
z-ai
Context
1.1MBest
1.0M
Input / 1M
$2
$0.034Best
Output / 1M
$10
$7Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
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Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Sep 29, 2026
Jun 13, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGPT-6.1 SolGLM 5.2Source
Design Arena Coding1346 Elo1287 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena UI1323 Elo1294 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena Web-app Agent1306 Elo1222 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena Website1321 Elo1285 Elosource · 2026-10-23
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)93.7% ± 1.459.2% ± 3source · 2026-09-29
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)95.4% ± 1.491.9% ± 1.6source · 2026-09-29
LiveBench Agentic Coding54.5%51.8%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Coding80.4%79.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Data Analysis82.7%73.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Instruction Following74.2%62.3%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Language90.1%76.2%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Math96.8%89.8%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Reasoning92.6%78.6%source · 2026-10-18
LMArena Agent13.52.1source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery4.50.7source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability13.11.3source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Task Outcome13.83.8source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.70.7source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Creative Writing1424 Elo1462 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Instruction Following1467 Elo1466 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Long Query1461 Elo1479 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Math1490 Elo1484 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Text1480 Elo1475 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Text Factuality1463 Elo1463 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena WebDev1749 Elo1604 Elosource · 2026-10-22
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)100% ± 086.4% ± 4.2source · 2026-09-29
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)73.9% ± 1.434.2% ± 1.5source · 2026-09-29

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.

task evidence

How they place when the question changes

Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.