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Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs GLM-4.5-Air

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.7 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5-Air costs 3.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.7

Rank #169 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and GLM-4.5-Air in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.1 to 23.3.
  • GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • GLM-4.5-Air has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index59.838.7
Released2026-08-132025-07-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K98K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$1.10
Results tracked4427

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), GLM-4.5-Air: 34.5 (#225)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Coding14991397
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
GSO—2.9%
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), GLM-4.5-Air: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), GLM-4.5-Air: 23.3 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Hard Prompts14971379
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—43%
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72—
ForecastBench—59.2

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), GLM-4.5-Air: 33.8 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Math15111396
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
Omni-MATH—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), GLM-4.5-Air: 34.6 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Expert15081370
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
MMLU-Pro—76.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), GLM-4.5-Air: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), GLM-4.5-Air: 49.4 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Non-English14851366
LMArena Chinese15531427
LMArena French15121399
LMArena German14851376
LMArena Japanese15061348
LMArena Korean14861306
LMArena Russian15191373
LMArena Spanish15071385

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), GLM-4.5-Air: 69.8 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Instruction Following14861353
IFEval—81.2%

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Longer Query14931367

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), GLM-4.5-Air: 56.1 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Text14871384
LMArena Creative Writing14901343
LMArena Multi-Turn14951371
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
WildBench—78.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than GLM-4.5-Air?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.7 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5-Air costs 3.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or GLM-4.5-Air?

GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.7 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-4.5-Air share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.

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