Z.ai · open weights on Arena · first on Arena 7 April 2026

glm-5.1

287 days for open weights to match gemini-2.5-pro

This open-weights model matched the score of gemini-2.5-pro in Text 287 days after gemini-2.5-pro took first place. It also matched claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32k in WebDev.

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Who held first place

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Credits LMArena.

The open-weights catch-up

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Credits LMArena.

The saturation clock

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Credits Epoch AI.

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This page

Jesse Hawkins, “glm-5.1 · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-1/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

@misc{hawkins2026frontierglm51,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{glm-5.1 · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-1/}},
  note = {Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities \& benchmarking, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-30}
}

Arena · LMArena

LMArena, "Arena leaderboard dataset", Hugging Face, revision 4491b06. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset. CC BY 4.0.

Benchmarks · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Text: best place 8

place 40 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 7 April 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1463 (1459–1466) on 28 October 2026 · 66,771 votes
Matched: gemini-2.5-pro on 7 April 2026, 287 days after it took first place

WebDev: best place 3

place 63 of 152 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 9 April 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1508 (1501–1515) on 28 October 2026 · 10,647 votes
Matched: claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32k on 9 April 2026, 134 days after it took first place

Epoch AI: GLM-5.1

released 7 April 2026 · Open weights (unrestricted)

Chess Puzzles 20.0%
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private 33.4%
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private 12.5%
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 36.8%
GPQA diamond 89.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 93.3%
SWE-Bench verified 74.2%
SimpleQA Verified 34.0%

Sources

Arena scores come from people voting between two anonymous answers. First place is the highest score; the top two are often within each other’s margin of error. LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, retrieved 30 October 2026; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, retrieved 30 October 2026. Both CC BY 4.0.