Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Minimax M 2.5 is $1.86 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
2 days newer
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM 5
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM 5
Minimax M 2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GLM 5
Minimax M 2.5
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
GLM 5
Minimax M 2.5
GLM 5
Minimax M 2.5