Head-to-head comparison
Inkling (Thinking Machines) 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 22 September 2026
As of 22 September 2026, GLM 5V Turbo holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#45 vs #46); GLM 5V Turbo is cheaper per output token ($4.00/1M vs $4.05/1M); Inkling offers the longer context window (1M vs 203K tokens); and Inkling ships open weights.
Evidence: 5 public benchmark observations across 5 boards · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 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 22 September 2026: #45 against #46. 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.
GLM 5V Turbo is cheaper on output tokens: $4.00/1M against $4.05/1M. Input tokens are $1.00/1M for Inkling and $1.20/1M for GLM 5V Turbo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $4.03 for Inkling versus $4.40 for GLM 5V Turbo. Inkling costs 8.5% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
Inkling has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 203K.
Arena coding: Inkling 1492, GLM 5V Turbo 1489 — Inkling leads.
Inkling: Open weights. 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 3 API providers for Inkling 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 22 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.