Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than GLM 5. GLM 5 is $14.64 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
Zhipu AI
GLM-5 is a large language model from Zhipu AI with 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters per inference, designed for agentic intelligence, advanced reasoning, and frontier-level performance. It features a 200K token context window and targets complex multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use. GLM-5 is available via Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform under an MIT license.
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Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4
GLM 5
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
GLM 5
Claude Sonnet 4
GLM 5
Claude Sonnet 4
GLM 5
Zhipu AI