All benchmarks
Head-to-head
Ox Alpha vs GLM-5
GLM-5 wins on openness and price; Ox Alpha answers with 5× the context, higher output limits and a $0 preview.
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The verdict
GLM-5 is the value and open-weights pick — cheap, self-hostable and genuinely strong at coding. Ox Alpha counters with five times the context window, higher output limits and a free preview. Fittingly, some suspect Ox Alpha itself descends from the GLM family, though nobody has confirmed it. Choose on control versus context.
Side by side
The same figures from our full benchmark table, narrowed to two columns.
| Metric | Ox Alpha | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 59* | 57 |
| Agentic coding | 78* | 72 |
| Context window | 1M | 200K |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| Throughput (tps) | 24* | 90 |
| Price / 1M out | $0 | $1.50 |
| Multimodal | ||
| Open weights | ||
| Free to use |
Where Ox Alpha wins
- Five times the context window (1M vs 200K)
- Free during preview with nothing to host or maintain
- Higher max output tokens
- Frontier-tier reasoning without any setup
Where GLM-5 leads
- Open weights you can download and run yourself
- Predictable, permanently low pricing
- Full data control for private, on-prem deployments
Which should you choose?
Pick Ox Alpha if
You want the biggest context and frontier reasoning without hosting anything.
Pick GLM-5 if
You need open weights, on-prem control, or a guaranteed long-term price.
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