Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GLM-5.3

Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.1 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

GLM-5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu)

54.8

Rank #26 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and GLM-5.3 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 46.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 66.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 41% for GLM-5.3.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.3.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.154.8
Released2026-07-212026-08-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$4.40
Results tracked4642

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
DeepSWE46.7%69%
FrontierCode34.4%40.1%
LMArena WebDev15381622
SciCode52.7%59%
WeirdML56.1%75.4%
LMArena Coding14911496
ALE-Bench715.521,317
CursorBench—42.6%
FrontierSWE—30.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
APEX-Agents46.9%56.6%
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 2—8,164

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
NYT Connections (extended)89%74.2%
CritPt10.6%19.1%
Chess Puzzles43%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851489
Mystery Game Puzzles30%33%
DTBench95.5%87.7%
LMCA44.9%55.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25155.61
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
Bench to the Future 3—0.15

Math GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%68.8%
FrontierMath Tier 422%29.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%91.1%
ProofBench36%49%
LMArena Math15051489
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond94.1%90.9%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%41%
LMArena Expert14881516

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), GLM-5.3: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
LMArena Non-English14691457
LMArena Chinese15311528
LMArena French15041499
LMArena German14781499
LMArena Japanese14761453
LMArena Korean14311472
LMArena Russian14871463
LMArena Spanish14751460

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
LMArena Instruction Following14661477

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
LMArena Longer Query14741482

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5.3
LMArena Text14791471
LMArena Creative Writing14651457
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16042075
LMArena Multi-Turn14811472

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than GLM-5.3?

Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.1 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or GLM-5.3?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; GLM-5.3 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or GLM-5.3 better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 50.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5.3 share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 42.

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