Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini offers 95.9K more tokens in context window than GLM 5. GLM 5 is $2.14 cheaper per million tokens. o4 mini supports multimodal inputs. 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.
OpenAI
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
10 months newer

o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM 5
o4 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
o4 mini
GLM 5
o4 mini
GLM 5
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OpenAI