Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and GLM-4.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GLM-4.5 leads 52.8 to 46.0.
  • GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index37.842.0
Released2025-02-052025-07-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—98K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked3227

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Coding13221434
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—54.2%
WeirdML—40.6%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—344.82
AlgoTune—1.52

Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts13241429
Kagi LLM Benchmark—57.9%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Math13091427
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Expert13051433
Humanity's Last Exam—8.3%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—11.3%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GLM-4.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Non-English13231417
LMArena Chinese13391465
LMArena French13471418
LMArena German13061407
LMArena Japanese13011415
LMArena Korean13251380
LMArena Russian13281414
LMArena Spanish13131454

Instruction Following GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following13051404
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Longer Query13201412
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Text13301430
LMArena Creative Writing13191395
LMArena Multi-Turn13071415
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1343
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GLM-4.5 better for coding?

GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GLM-4.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5 has 27.

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