Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.8

Rank #41 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5.3-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5.3-Flash leads 58.4 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 93.9% for GLM-5.3-Flash.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index25.951.8
Released2024-06-242026-08-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked3540

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.1 (#31)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Coding11731508
DeepSWE—63.4%
FrontierCode—31.8%
CursorBench—36.8%
LMArena WebDev—1609
FrontierSWE—18.1%
SciCode—51.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
ALE-Bench—303.55

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GLM-5.3-Flash: 34.2 (#47)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
APEX-Agents—52.8%
GDP.pdf—14%

Reasoning GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), GLM-5.3-Flash: 48.0 (#42)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11711491
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83151.88
ARC-AGI-2—65.8%
ARC-AGI-1—91%
CritPt—15.4%
Chess Puzzles—14%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Surface Evolver Bench—52.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.15
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.3 (#47)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%93.9%
LMArena Math11831500
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—21%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), GLM-5.3-Flash: 58.4 (#36)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
GPQA Diamond27.5%90.2%
LMArena Expert11471513
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GLM-5.3-Flash: 42.8 (#27)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Vision—1296

Multilingual GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), GLM-5.3-Flash: 56.0 (#25)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Non-English11881462
LMArena Chinese11851527
LMArena French11901496
LMArena German11861470
LMArena Japanese11441429
LMArena Korean11371446
LMArena Russian12001469
LMArena Spanish12001471

Instruction Following GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), GLM-5.3-Flash: 77.5 (#20)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11781478
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), GLM-5.3-Flash: 45.4 (#39)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Longer Query11971482

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), GLM-5.3-Flash: 65.3 (#50)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGLM-5.3-Flash
LMArena Text12071471
LMArena Creative Writing12061442
LMArena Multi-Turn11931467
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than GLM-5.3-Flash?

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or GLM-5.3-Flash better for coding?

GLM-5.3-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.1 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and GLM-5.3-Flash share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3-Flash has 40.

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