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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs GLM-4.6V

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.4 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

40.9

Rank #133 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and GLM-4.6V in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 38.7 to 34.2.
  • GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index40.440.9
Released2026-03-032025-12-08
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.90
Results tracked3812

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6V leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Coding14001390
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), GLM-4.6V: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Hard Prompts14071368
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), GLM-4.6V: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
LMArena Math1427—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Expert13971372
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—

Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Vision12401164

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Non-English14101359
LMArena Chinese14611426
LMArena Russian14201341
LMArena French1423—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1393—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Instruction Following13761351

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Longer Query13941358

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Text14161377
LMArena Creative Writing14011347
LMArena Multi-Turn14171359

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than GLM-4.6V?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6V score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.4 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GLM-4.6V better for coding?

GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6V share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.

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