Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs GLM-4.5-Air

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon 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 math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 36.2.
  • GLM-4.5-Air has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argon and GLM-4.5-Air specifications
Gemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index56.538.9
Released2026-09-302025-07-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—98K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.10
Results tracked2127

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Coding15501397
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
GSO—2.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), GLM-4.5-Air: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Hard Prompts15481379
Kagi LLM Benchmark—43%
CritPt27.1%—
ForecastBench—59.2

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Math15361396
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Expert15531370
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
MMLU-Pro—76.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), GLM-4.5-Air: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Non-English15231366
LMArena Chinese16101426
LMArena Russian15371373
LMArena Spanish14971386
LMArena French—1399
LMArena German—1377
LMArena Japanese—1348
LMArena Korean—1308

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Instruction Following15381354
IFEval—81.2%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Longer Query15491366

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Text15341384
LMArena Creative Writing15311343
LMArena Multi-Turn15571371
WildBench—78.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than GLM-4.5-Air?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and GLM-4.5-Air share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.

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