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GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-6 Astra

Compare GLM 5V Turbo and GPT-6 Astra side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, Classification, Object Detection, and Open Prompt.

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GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-6 Astra on Vision Evals

GPT-6 Astra scores higher on all six Vision Evals tasks.

The widest gap is Reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 87.2% to 31.8%.

Overall, GLM 5V Turbo averages 65.3% (#36 of 53) against 86.6% (#1 of 53) for GPT-6 Astra.

GLM 5V Turbo is both cheaper ($0.0031 vs $0.030 per sample) and faster (6.3s vs 6.7s per sample).

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GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-6 Astra Comparison Table

Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 5, 2026

PropertyGLM 5V TurboGPT-6 Astra
OrganizationZ.aiOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateApr 2026Sep 2026
Context Window200K1.1M
ParametersUndisclosed
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$1.20$10.00
Output $/1M$4.00$50.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
65.3%
86.6%
Avg cost / sample$0.0031$0.030
Avg speed / sample6.35s6.67s
By task
Object Detection (low)
56.5%
$0.0052
82.1%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7
$0.050
Object Detection (high)
83.6%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5
$0.101
Counting (low)
48.6%
$0.0017
80.2%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1
$0.018
Counting (high)
81.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4
$0.028
Identification (low)
84.4%
$0.0015
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.013
Identification (high)
92.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.014
OCR (low)
89.3%
$0.0030
91.9%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.1
$0.031
OCR (high)
91.5%
±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 91.7
$0.089
Data Extraction (low)
81.4%
$0.0018
88.7%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7
$0.015
Data Extraction (high)
91.1%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.7 to 91.8
$0.018
Reasoning (low)
31.8%
$0.0017
87.2%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1
$0.016
Reasoning (high)
49.7%
$0.0069
91.2%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4
$0.021

GLM 5V Turbo vs GPT-6 Astra: Overview

GLM 5V Turbo

GLM-5V-Turbo is a native multimodal model from Z.ai that extends the GLM family with joint image, video, and text input aimed at vision-centered coding and agent workflows. The model reads screenshots, design drafts, document layouts, and interface captures and generates runnable code from them, covering tasks such as turning a visual design into a working front end, diagnosing rendering and layout defects from screen captures, and operating graphical user interfaces during long-horizon agent runs. It accepts roughly 200,000 input tokens and can emit up to 131,072 output tokens in a single response, which supports sessions that hold specifications, source files, logs, and visual references at the same time.

Training includes a joint reinforcement learning stage spanning more than 30 tasks simultaneously, an approach Z.ai describes as a way to counter the trade-off in which improving visual recognition degrades programming ability and the reverse. Reported evaluations cover pure-text coding on the backend, frontend, and repository exploration tracks of CC-Bench-V2, together with agent execution suites such as PinchBench, ClawEval, and ZClawBench, indicating that text coding behavior is retained after visual input is added.

GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.

OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

Frequently Asked Questions

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, GPT-6 Astra performed better. It scores higher on all six vision tasks and averages 86.6% (#1 of 53) against 65.3% (#36 of 53) for GLM 5V Turbo. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

No. On the Vision Evals Reasoning benchmark at low effort, GPT-6 Astra leads with 87.2% against 31.8%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

GLM 5V Turbo is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0031 per sample against $0.030. GLM 5V Turbo is priced at $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output; GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

GLM 5V Turbo is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 6.3s per inference against 6.7s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and OCR in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.