GLM-4.5V
Z.aiOpenMIT
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language model from Z.ai. It ranks 118 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1154±12 from 3,243 votes. Its best category is Diagrams (#113 of 123). License: MIT.
Key figures
- Developer
- Z.ai
- License
- MIT
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor, Chinese.
Who it suits
- Overall #118 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Diagrams (#113 of 123).
- Open weights (MIT): you can self-host it.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 |  GPT-5 nano (High) OpenAI | 1159 | 3,928 | Proprietary | +5 |
| 116 |  Gemini 2.0 Flash (001) Google | 1158 | 10,135 | Proprietary | +4 |
| 117 |  Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Mistral | 1157 | 10,793 | Proprietary | +3 |
| 118 | GLM-4.5V Z.ai | 1154 | 3,243 | MIT | |
| 119 |  Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct Alibaba | 1152 | 1,490 | Apache 2.0 | -2 |
| 120 |  Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219) Anthropic | 1151 | 4,517 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 121 | Mistral Small 3.2 (2506) Mistral | 1142 | 10,843 | Apache 2.0 | -12 |
Alternatives · More from Z.ai
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 50 | GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai | 1264 | 42,757 | Proprietary |
| 113 | GLM-4.6V Z.ai | 1164 | 2,455 | MIT |
| 163 | CogVLM2 Llama3 Chat 19B Z.ai | 928 | 1,991 | CogVLM2 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does GLM-4.5V rank among vision models?
Overall rank 118 (1154); OCR rank 115 (1151); Diagrams rank 113 (1151); Homework rank 109 (1163); English rank 108 (1183) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is GLM-4.5V at OCR?
GLM-4.5V ranks 115 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1151 (1,195 votes).
Is GLM-4.5V open-weight?
LMArena lists its license as MIT, not proprietary; check the license text for commercial use.
How far is GLM-4.5V from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); GLM-4.5V has 1154, 171 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.