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MAI DS R1 vs GLM 5 Turbo

MAI DS R1 (Microsoft) and GLM 5 Turbo (Z.ai) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 23 September 2026

As of 23 September 2026, GLM 5 Turbo holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#97 vs #101); and MAI DS R1 ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose MAI DS R1 if…

  • you want to self-host: MAI DS R1 ships open weights while GLM 5 Turbo is api only.

Choose GLM 5 Turbo if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #97 against #101 (54.8 vs 54.0 points).
  • you want provider choice — 1 listed API providers against 0.
  • you want the more recently listed model — GLM 5 Turbo was listed 15 March 2026, MAI DS R1 16 April 2025.

MAI DS R1 vs GLM 5 Turbo: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of MAI DS R1 and GLM 5 Turbo
FieldMAI DS R1MicrosoftGLM 5 TurboZ.ai
ModelCap Index position#101#97
Index score54.054.8
EvidenceInheritedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$1.20
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$4.00
Context window— tokens203K tokens
Max output tokens—131K
API providers listed01
Weight accessOpen weightsAPI only
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed16 April 202515 March 2026
PublisherMicrosoftZ.ai

Evidence: finetune of deepseek/deepseek-r1 · finetune (100%) · publisher-corpus-prior over 215 held-out anchors (63%); 1 specialist-board observation at 1.2% support (37%); shrunk 24.9 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: MAI DS R1 vs GLM 5 Turbo

Public benchmark boards where MAI DS R1 or GLM 5 Turbo has a published result
BoardMAI DS R1GLM 5 TurboLeads
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—98.5%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—27.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueOnly one result
WildClawBench OpenClawWildClawBench—33.9Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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MAI DS R1 vs GLM 5 Turbo: common questions

Is MAI DS R1 better than GLM 5 Turbo?

GLM 5 Turbo ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 23 September 2026: #97 against #101. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is MAI DS R1 cheaper than GLM 5 Turbo?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, MAI DS R1 or GLM 5 Turbo?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, MAI DS R1 or GLM 5 Turbo?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are MAI DS R1 and GLM 5 Turbo open-weight models?

MAI DS R1: Open weights. GLM 5 Turbo: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run MAI DS R1 and GLM 5 Turbo?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for MAI DS R1 and 1 for GLM 5 Turbo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this MAI DS R1 vs GLM 5 Turbo comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 23 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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