Model comparison

GLM-4.5 vs Qwen3-4B

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #122 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.5 leads 28.6 to 19.2.

Side by side

GLM-4.5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
GLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.031.9
Released2025-07-272025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output98K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.60—
Output $ / M tokens$2.20—
Results tracked276

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)54.2%—
WeirdML40.6%—
LMArena Coding1434—
ALE-Bench344.82—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1429—

Math GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1427—

Knowledge GLM-4.5 leads

GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8.3%—
Confabulations11.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1433—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1417—
LMArena Chinese1465—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1407—
LMArena Japanese1415—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1414—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1404—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1412—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1430—
LMArena Creative Writing1395—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1343—
LMArena Multi-Turn1415—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5 better than Qwen3-4B?

GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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