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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs ChatGLM-6B

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Z.ai
ChatGLM-6B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicZ.ai
Release dateSep 29 2025Mar 14 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
6B
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
79%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapChatGLM-6B shipped 930 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or ChatGLM-6B?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGLM-6B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. ChatGLM-6B shipped 930 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while ChatGLM-6B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGLM-6B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.

ChatGLM-6B was released by Z.ai on Mar 14 2023.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. ChatGLM-6B is an open weight model released by Z.ai.

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