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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GLM-5V-Turbo

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

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

43.1

Rank #86 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and GLM-5V-Turbo in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 28.5.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.143.1
Released2026-07-212026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$4
Results tracked4619

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), GLM-5V-Turbo: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena WebDev15361400
LMArena Coding14921467
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), GLM-5V-Turbo: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), GLM-5V-Turbo: 28.5 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts14861443
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), GLM-5V-Turbo: 36.6 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Math15041440
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.9 (#113)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Expert14891451
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.1 (#41)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Vision12971264
LMArena Document14561416
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.2 (#69)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Non-English14701420
LMArena Chinese15301488
LMArena French15011443
LMArena German14781422
LMArena Korean14351399
LMArena Russian14901432
LMArena Spanish14771446
LMArena Japanese1477—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.1 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following14671422

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#76)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Longer Query14751439

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.6 (#69)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Text14781437
LMArena Creative Writing14641414
LMArena Multi-Turn14811432
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than GLM-5V-Turbo?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or GLM-5V-Turbo?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.6 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5V-Turbo share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.

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