Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GLM-5.1

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)

47.8

Rank #59 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and GLM-5.1 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5.1 leads 49.7 to 32.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified: 57.6% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 74.2% for GLM-5.1.
  • GLM-5.1 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • GLM-5.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and GLM-5.1 specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index45.047.8
Released2025-03-252026-04-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M200K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$10$4.40
Results tracked7841

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding GLM-5.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), GLM-5.1: 48.7 (#55)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
SWE-bench Verified57.6%74.2%
LMArena WebDev12271508
SciCode42.8%43.8%
WeirdML54%57.1%
LMArena Coding14521485
ALE-Bench785.52887.1
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
GSO3.9%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), GLM-5.1: 24.9 (#113)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
Vending-Bench 2573.645,634
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
APEX-Agents—40.9%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
ExploitBench—18.1%
GBAEval—0%
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—

Reasoning GLM-5.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), GLM-5.1: 39.1 (#60)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
SimpleBench62.4%55.1%
CritPt2%4.6%
Chess Puzzles20%19%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551472
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32149.84
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—77.7%
ARC-AGI-141%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
Thematic Generalization—69.8%
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math GLM-5.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), GLM-5.1: 49.7 (#60)

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), GLM-5.1: 54.9 (#50)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
GPQA Diamond85.3%89.9%
LMArena Expert14521476
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—34%
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), GLM-5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#36)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Non-English14511447
LMArena Chinese15071515
LMArena French14721474
LMArena German14871465
LMArena Japanese14611434
LMArena Korean14341418
LMArena Russian14611454
LMArena Spanish14731469

Instruction Following GLM-5.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), GLM-5.1: 76.3 (#42)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following14371451
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#53)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Longer Query14491466
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5.1 leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), GLM-5.1: 66.9 (#31)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Text14581461
LMArena Creative Writing14541453
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14211592
LMArena Multi-Turn14531472
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than GLM-5.1?

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GLM-5.1?

GLM-5.1 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or GLM-5.1 better for coding?

GLM-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and GLM-5.1 share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.1 has 41.

Related comparisons

Go deeper