Head-to-head comparison
Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) and GLM 5V 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 18 August 2026
As of 18 August 2026, GLM 5V Turbo holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#29 vs #38); GLM 5V Turbo is 1.9× cheaper per output token ($4.00/1M vs $7.50/1M); and Mistral Medium 3.5 offers the longer context window (262K vs 203K tokens).
Evidence: 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards · 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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GLM 5V Turbo ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 18 August 2026: #29 against #38. 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.
GLM 5V Turbo is cheaper on output tokens: $4.00/1M against $7.50/1M. Input tokens are $1.50/1M for Mistral Medium 3.5 and $1.20/1M for GLM 5V Turbo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 203K.
Arena coding: Mistral Medium 3.5 1479, GLM 5V Turbo 1490 — GLM 5V Turbo leads.
Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. GLM 5V 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.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 1 for GLM 5V Turbo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 18 August 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.