Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-5.2

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.1

Rank #44 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and GLM-5.2 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 42.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 74.3% for GLM-5.2.
  • GLM-5.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.2 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.851.1
Released2025-11-182026-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked6751

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GLM-5.2: 51.3 (#41)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
SWE-bench Verified72.9%78.7%
LMArena WebDev14401603
WeirdML69.9%70.1%
LMArena Coding14811485
ALE-Bench1,1771,047
DeepSWE—43.8%
FrontierCode—24.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—50.5%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GLM-5.2: 32.4 (#63)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
τ²-bench Banking18%37.1%
Vending-Bench 25,4788,314
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—45.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
PostTrainBench—31.7%
BALROG58.1%—
GBAEval—0%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GLM-5.2: 42.3 (#52)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
ARC-AGI-231.1%22.8%
SimpleBench76.4%58.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%62.6%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%74.3%
ARC-AGI-175%77%
CritPt6.9%20.9%
Chess Puzzles31%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801480
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92151.78
EnigmaEval18.2%—
EBR-Bench—9.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—93.6%
LMCA—45.8%
Surface Evolver Bench—55.6%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math GLM-5.2 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GLM-5.2: 55.7 (#43)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#40)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
GPQA Diamond92.6%91.9%
LMArena Expert14751486
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—34.2%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GLM-5.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GLM-5.2: 55.8 (#26)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
LMArena Non-English14741459
LMArena Chinese15231519
LMArena French14921479
LMArena German15151468
LMArena Japanese15101451
LMArena Korean14481445
LMArena Russian14931466
LMArena Spanish14701477

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GLM-5.2: 76.9 (#34)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following14581465
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context GLM-5.2 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
LMArena Longer Query14711479
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5.2 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GLM-5.2: 70.4 (#21)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.2
LMArena Text14791470
LMArena Creative Writing14821462
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251757
LMArena Multi-Turn14841469
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1222

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-5.2?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-5.2 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (51.6 vs 51.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.2 share?

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.2 has 51.

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