Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-5.1
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and GLM-5.1 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 40.6 to 24.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 55.1% for GLM-5.1.
- GLM-5.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 47.8 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2026-04-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 67 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GLM-5.1: 48.7 (#55)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | 74.2% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | 1508 |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | 57.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1485 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | 887.1 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| SciCode | — | 43.8% |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GLM-5.1: 24.9 (#113)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | 5,634 |
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | — |
| APEX-Agents | — | 40.9% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | — |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| ExploitBench | — | 18.1% |
| GBAEval | — | 0% |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GLM-5.1: 39.1 (#60)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | 55.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | 77.7% |
| CritPt | 6.9% | 4.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | 19% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1480 | 1472 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.92 | 149.84 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 69.8% |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GLM-5.1: 49.7 (#60)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | 67.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | 93.3% |
| ProofBench | 20% | 22.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1476 | 1473 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | 33.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | 12.5% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GLM-5.1: 54.9 (#50)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | 89.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1476 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 34% |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GLM-5.1: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#36)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1447 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1523 | 1515 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1474 |
| LMArena German | 1515 | 1465 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1510 | 1434 |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | 1418 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1454 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | 1469 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GLM-5.1: 76.3 (#42)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1451 |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#53)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1471 | 1466 |
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GLM-5.1: 66.9 (#31)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | GLM-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1461 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1453 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | 1592 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1472 |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-5.1?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-5.1 better for coding?
Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 48.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.1 share?
34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.1 has 41.