Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.4

Rank #135 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GLM-4.6 leads 32.3 to 17.9.
  • GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and GLM-4.6 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index32.141.4
Released2024-02-152025-09-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked4529

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Coding12941449
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1340
SciCode—38.4%
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
ALE-Bench—340.82
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
Terminal-Bench—24.5%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.4%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts12961440
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—47.4%
CritPt—1.1%
DTBench59%—
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Math13151432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%—
Omni-MATH36.4%—
MATH Level 570.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Expert12791431
GPQA Diamond57.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.5%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), GLM-4.6: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Non-English13121426
LMArena Chinese13311499
LMArena French13021459
LMArena German12861447
LMArena Japanese12921393
LMArena Korean12981400
LMArena Russian13201419
LMArena Spanish13111436

Instruction Following GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Instruction Following12971410
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Longer Query13081422

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)GLM-4.6
LMArena Text13191440
LMArena Creative Writing13331411
LMArena Multi-Turn12961427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1411
WildBench81.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than GLM-4.6?

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or GLM-4.6 better for coding?

GLM-4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and GLM-4.6 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.

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