Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs GLM-5V-Turbo

Gemma 4 31B IT and GLM-5V-Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai (Zhipu)

43.8

Rank #84 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 6 categories and GLM-5V-Turbo in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 43.2 to 39.4.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B IT and GLM-5V-Turbo specifications
Gemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index43.543.8
Released2026-04-022026-04-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K200K
Max output33K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$4
Results tracked3519

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena WebDev13661401
LMArena Coding14591466
SciCode43.4%—
WeirdML52.3%—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts14481443
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Math14651441
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—

Knowledge GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Expert14651452
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Vision12771264
LMArena Document14251416

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Non-English14311420
LMArena Chinese14761488
LMArena French14351444
LMArena Russian14601431
LMArena Spanish14441450
LMArena German—1423
LMArena Korean—1396

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following14331423

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Longer Query14461438

Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGLM-5V-Turbo
LMArena Text14431437
LMArena Creative Writing14151416
LMArena Multi-Turn14521432
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than GLM-5V-Turbo?

Gemma 4 31B IT and GLM-5V-Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or GLM-5V-Turbo?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.3 vs 42.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 31B IT does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and GLM-5V-Turbo share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.

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