Performance Benchmarks for glm-5v-turbo

Analyze how glm-5v-turbo stacks up against other frontier models in terms of cost-to-performance and raw intelligence (LMArena Elo).

2026 Performance Summary

🚀 Intelligence (Elo): 1227
💰 API Cost (Input): $0.0000012 / 1M tokens
⚡ API Cost (Output): $0.000004 / 1M tokens
⏱️ Real-world Throughput: 40 tokens/s

Analysis: While glm-5v-turbo is a capable model, it is currently outperformed in efficiency by gemini-3-flash. gemini-3-flash sits higher on the Pareto line, offering approximately 247 points more intelligence (Elo) for a comparable or lower API cost.

Highly Recommended Alternatives

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
gemini-3-flash	1474	$5e-7	67
qwen3.6-plus-preview	1456	$3.25e-7	46
gemma-4-31b	1451	$1.3e-7	27
gemma-4-26b-a4b	1439	$8e-8	31
qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507	1424	$7.1e-8	7

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*