Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-5

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 45 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

46.1

Rank #66 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 45 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GLM-5 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 75% for Gemini 3 Pro and 44.7% for GLM-5.
  • GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 ProGLM-5
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.846.1
Released2025-11-182026-02-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked6745

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GLM-5: 49.0 (#52)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
SWE-bench Verified72.9%72.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%72.8%
LMArena WebDev14401434
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%69.7%
WeirdML69.9%48.2%
LMArena Coding14811461
ALE-Bench1,177765.62
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GLM-5: 31.1 (#71)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
Terminal-Bench69.4%52.4%
τ²-bench Airline80.5%82.5%
τ²-bench Banking18%9.8%
τ²-bench Retail75.9%73.7%
τ²-bench Telecom91%86.8%
Vending-Bench 25,4784,432
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GLM-5: 27.6 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
ARC-AGI-231.1%4.9%
SimpleBench76.4%53.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%75%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%74.8%
ARC-AGI-175%44.7%
Chess Puzzles31%10%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801452
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92145.83
ForecastBench61.261
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GLM-5: 46.4 (#71)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%65.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%80%
LMArena Math14761440
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%16.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%2.1%
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GLM-5: 52.3 (#64)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
GPQA Diamond92.6%87.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%10.1%
LMArena Expert14751454
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GLM-5: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GLM-5: 53.7 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
LMArena Non-English14741430
LMArena Chinese15231511
LMArena French14921455
LMArena German15151445
LMArena Japanese15101416
LMArena Korean14481423
LMArena Russian14931436
LMArena Spanish14701454

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GLM-5: 75.2 (#67)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
LMArena Instruction Following14581428
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GLM-5: 44.7 (#60)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
CL-bench15.8%18.7%
LMArena Longer Query14711446

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GLM-5: 66.0 (#38)

BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5
LMArena Text14791446
LMArena Creative Writing14821439
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251601
LMArena Multi-Turn14841456
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-5?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-5 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 49.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5 share?

45 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.

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