GLM-5.1

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “GLM is already good enough and cheap enough to use it at API rates”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “GLM 5.1 has been more reliable for one of my projects than Sonnet”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “GLM 5.1 writing the rest. We haven't had regressions, confusion or anything else.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “GLM-5.1 is easily as good as Opus 4.5 for all the coding purposes I could throw at it”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-13

• “I could barely believe how good GLM-5.1 was, I didn't think I was using it in CC and had to check the settings again”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “Glm-5.1 was building for me and had a lot of trouble getting last few tests to pass”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “"Create a crisp memo from this meeting transcription" is a prompt that will bring great results with either Opus 4.6 or GLM-5.1”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “even glm 5.1 is giving me something equivalent to what Opus 4.6 gives”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-29

• “GLM 5.1 is at least as good as Opus 4.5 - when it's my dime it's the primary model I use”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “GLM-5.1 did acceptably but got a few things wrong (easily corrected) and took quite a while to get there”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “not something that would be the best model if we went 1 year back which GLM 5.1 is”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “I switched to coding plans containing GLM 5.1, Kimi K2.6 and Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 Pro and I never been happier”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “I used Claude Code with GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.6 and had pretty good results”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “GLM-5.1 reached 98.7% in the main matrix and 100% in the matched preserved-thinking control”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-25

• “GLM 5.1 did an outstanding job on the possum - better than Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.4 and I think better than Gemini 3.1 Pro too”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “I have used glm 5.1 (I assume this comes form them training on both opus and codex) for things opus couldn't do and have seen it make better code”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “good experience with GLM-5.1. Sure it doesn't match xhigh but comes close to 4.6 at 1/3rd the cost”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “GLM-5.1 is actually slightly better at following instructions exactly than Optus 4.6”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-17

• “GLM-5.1 added a sparkling earring to a north Virginia opossum the other day and I was delighted”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-16