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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs GLM-5V-Turbo

GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai (Zhipu)

43.8

Rank #84 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 2 categories and GLM-5V-Turbo in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 29.7 to 22.9.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index40.843.8
Released2026-03-032026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$4
Results tracked3819

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena WebDev12561401
LMArena Coding14001466
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), GLM-5V-Turbo: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts14071443
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Math14281441
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Expert13981452
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—

Multimodal GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Vision12401264
LMArena Document—1416

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Non-English14111420
LMArena Chinese14611488
LMArena French14241444
LMArena German14291423
LMArena Korean13921396
LMArena Russian14201431
LMArena Spanish14211450
LMArena Japanese1413—

Instruction Following GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following13771423

Long Context GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Longer Query13941438

Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Text14161437
LMArena Creative Writing14011416
LMArena Multi-Turn14171432

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than GLM-5V-Turbo?

GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GLM-5V-Turbo?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?

GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GLM-5V-Turbo share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.

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