Model comparison

GLM-4.6V vs Llama 3.1-405B

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

40.9

Rank #133 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.4

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6V scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6V leads 56.8 to 39.1.

Side by side

GLM-4.6V and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Meta
Noometry Index40.930.4
Released2025-12-082024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked1242

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128), Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Coding13901291
WeirdML—21.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Hard Prompts13681270
SimpleBench—23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
DTBench—61.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.76
ForecastBench—59.9
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—9.7%
Omni-MATH—24.9%
LMArena Math—1281
MATH Level 5—49.8%

Knowledge GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Expert13721243
GPQA Diamond—50.9%
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1164—

Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English13591248
LMArena Chinese14261242
LMArena Russian13411265
LMArena French—1278
LMArena German—1252
LMArena Japanese—1208
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Spanish—1259

Instruction Following GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145), Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following13511259
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query13581266

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132), Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text13771284
LMArena Creative Writing13471262
LMArena Multi-Turn13591297
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870
WildBench—78.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6V better than Llama 3.1-405B?

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-4.6V or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 32.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and Llama 3.1-405B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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