Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-4.5-Air

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro 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 knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 35.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 80.1% for Gemini 3 Pro and 43% for GLM-4.5-Air.
  • GLM-4.5-Air has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-4.5-Air specifications
Gemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.838.9
Released2025-11-182025-07-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—98K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.10
Results tracked6727

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
GSO18.6%2.9%
LMArena Coding14811397
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GLM-4.5-Air: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%43%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801379
ForecastBench61.259.2
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Omni-MATH55.5%39.1%
LMArena Math14761396
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%8.1%
MMLU-Pro90.3%76.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%9.3%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%59.4%
LMArena Expert14751370
GPQA Diamond92.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GLM-4.5-Air: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Non-English14741366
LMArena Chinese15231426
LMArena French14921399
LMArena German15151377
LMArena Japanese15101348
LMArena Korean14481308
LMArena Russian14931373
LMArena Spanish14701386

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
IFEval87.7%81.2%
LMArena Instruction Following14581354

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Longer Query14711366
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Text14791384
LMArena Creative Writing14821343
WildBench85.9%78.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841371
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-4.5-Air?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-4.5-Air share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.

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