Claude Opus 5.5 vs GLM-5.3: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the Claude Opus 5.5 and GLM-5.3 releases: 5 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 7 models.

For intelligence, Claude Opus 5.5 scores highest: Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) at 59, against GLM-5.3 (Max) at 32 for GLM-5.3.
For time per task, Claude Opus 5.5 is fastest: Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) at 3.0 min, against GLM-5.3 (Low) at 15.4 min for GLM-5.3.
For cost per task, Claude Opus 5.5 is cheapest: Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) at $0.98, against GLM-5.3 (Low) at $1.57 for GLM-5.3.

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Releases compared


	Claude Opus 5.5 (max)	Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh)	Claude Opus 5.5 (high)	Claude Opus 5.5 (medium)	Claude Opus 5.5 (low)	GLM-5.3 (max)	GLM-5.3 (low)
Intelligence Index	59	57	52	48	35	32	23
Finance & Accounting	59	56	53	51	42	42	31
Strategy & Ops	61	59	58	56	48	47	38
Legal	58	55	52	50	43	36	28
Healthcare & Medical	58	56	52	51	45	39	31
Engineering	65	63	58	54	43	38	28
Economics	62	60	57	54	45	39	30
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1800	1760	1682	1620	1279	1503	1185
AutomationBench-AA	69.5%	65.0%	63.2%	61.2%	52.9%	62.2%	52.0%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	59.6%	59.6%	56.6%	52.5%	31.3%	41.9%	34.8%
FrontierCode 2.0	46.4%	43.8%	35.9%	33.1%	15.8%	21.6%	12.7%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	48	43	42	40	39	6	−11
GDP.pdf	26.2%	26.6%	28.8%	25.6%	25.6%	11.2%	8.8%
HLE-Diamond	67.9%	64.0%	55.6%	51.4%	41.7%	17.9%	17.5%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	68.0%	67.5%	59.5%	54.0%	36.0%	33.5%	21.5%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	59.0%	61.9%	49.0%	43.3%	24.3%	9.5%	3.8%

Cost per TaskUSD	$10.04	$6.05	$3.46	$2.45	$0.98	$5.01	$1.57
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$1.40	$1.40
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$4.40	$4.40
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.26	$0.26
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00	--	--

Time per TaskMinutes	26.2	16.0	9.1	6.6	3.0	30.8	15.4
Output Speedtok/s	110	108	110	110	107	64	56
Time to First Answer Tokens	342.98	67.16	32.05	18.34	5.31	90.99	13.09
Time to First Tokens	342.98	67.16	32.05	18.34	5.31	3.61	3.46
End-to-End TimeMean of Single-Request Workloads (s)	687.28	196.35	141.48	110.27	72.38	191.19	48.04

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M
Creator	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Z AI	Z AI
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	Supports: text
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers						+19	+3

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

No publicly available API

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Claude Opus 5.5

GLM-5.3

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

No publicly available API

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Output tokens divided by end-to-end output speed (minutes per Intelligence Index task) · Speed at the model's own endpoint or the median across providers · Lower is better

No publicly available API

The weighted average time (minutes) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task: output tokens per task divided by output speed, weighted by each benchmark's weight in the Intelligence Index.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Model AvsModel B

AA-PersonalityBench: Expressiveness Index, Claude Opus 5.5 (max) vs GLM-5.3 (max)

Chance each model’s answer is judged to show more of each trait from their Elo gap · 50% is an even match

Claude Opus 5.5 (max)

GLM-5.3 (max)

Natural Sounding

91%

Eloquent

91%

Literate

67%

33%

Lexically Varied

34%

66%

Metaphorical

44%

56%

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GLM-5.3: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Time per Task

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time Period

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

AA-PersonalityBench: Expressiveness Index, Claude Opus 5.5 (max) vs GLM-5.3 (max)