Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs GLM-4.5

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and GLM-4.5 in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 35.9.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • GLM-4.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index41.542.0
Released2026-07-212025-07-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K98K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.20
Results tracked3927

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
WeirdML39%40.6%
LMArena Coding14531434
ALE-Bench765.27344.82
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—54.2%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
AlgoTune—1.52

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), GLM-4.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts14411429
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—57.9%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math GLM-4.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Math14331427
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Expert14351433
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.3%
Confabulations—11.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), GLM-4.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Non-English14271417
LMArena Chinese14691465
LMArena French14511418
LMArena German14541407
LMArena Japanese14271415
LMArena Korean14071380
LMArena Russian14431414
LMArena Spanish14421454

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following14201404

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Longer Query14351412
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.5
LMArena Text14351430
LMArena Creative Writing14201395
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591343
LMArena Multi-Turn14451415
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than GLM-4.5?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GLM-4.5?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GLM-4.5 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.4 vs 41.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.5 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5 has 27.

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