Yep, haven't tried 5.1 but for my PHP coding, GLM-5 is 99% the same as Sonnet/Opus/GPT-5 levels. It is unbelievably strong for what it costs, not to mention you can run it locally.

I am working on a large scale dataset for producing agent traces for Python <> cython conversion with tooling, and it is second only to gemini pro 3.1 in acceptance rates (16% vs 26%).

Mid-sized models like gpt-oss minimax and qwen3.5 122b are around 6%, and gemma4 31b around 7% (but much slower).

I haven’t tried Opus or ChatGPT due to high costs on openrouter for this application.

It really bothers me that people refer to open weight models as being open source. They fundamentally aren't and are more akin to freeware than anything else.

Same thing I noticed.

My use cases are not code editing or authoring related, but when it comes to understanding a codebase and it's docs to help stakeholders write tasks or understand systems it has always outperformed american models at roughly half the price.