Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GLM-5

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

46.1

Rank #66 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5 leads 52.3 to 35.0.
  • GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index37.846.1
Released2025-02-052026-02-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3245

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GLM-5: 49.0 (#52)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Coding13221461
SWE-bench Verified—72.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1434
SWE-bench Multilingual—69.7%
WeirdML—48.2%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—765.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GLM-5: 31.1 (#71)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
Terminal-Bench—52.4%
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—9.8%
τ²-bench Retail—73.7%
τ²-bench Telecom—86.8%
Vending-Bench 2—4,432

Reasoning GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GLM-5: 27.6 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Hard Prompts13241452
ForecastBench57.161
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench—53.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—75%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
ARC-AGI-1—44.7%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.83
LiveBench54.3%—

Math GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GLM-5: 46.4 (#71)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Math13091440
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—65.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—80%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—16.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GLM-5: 52.3 (#64)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Expert13051454
GPQA Diamond—87.8%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.1%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GLM-5: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GLM-5: 53.7 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Non-English13231430
LMArena Chinese13391511
LMArena French13471455
LMArena German13061445
LMArena Japanese13011416
LMArena Korean13251423
LMArena Russian13281436
LMArena Spanish13131454

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GLM-5: 75.2 (#67)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Instruction Following13051428
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GLM-5: 44.7 (#60)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Longer Query13201446
CL-bench—18.7%

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GLM-5: 66.0 (#38)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGLM-5
LMArena Text13301446
LMArena Creative Writing13191439
LMArena Multi-Turn13071456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1601
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GLM-5?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GLM-5 better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GLM-5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.

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