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Model comparison

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Hermes 4 405B

GLM-5.3-Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#41); Hermes 4 405B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.8

Rank #41 Confirmed

Hermes 4 405B Nous Research

37.6

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5.3-Flash leads 48.0 to 26.1.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $3 for Hermes 4 405B.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Nous Research
Noometry Index51.837.6
Released2026-08-20—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output131K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$1
Output $ / M tokens$0.50$3
Results tracked402

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.1 (#31), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
DeepSWE63.4%—
FrontierCode31.8%—
CursorBench36.8%—
LMArena WebDev1609—
FrontierSWE18.1%—
SciCode51.6%—
LMArena Coding1508—
ALE-Bench303.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 34.2 (#47), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
APEX-Agents52.8%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 48.0 (#42), Hermes 4 405B: 26.1

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
ARC-AGI-265.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.8%
ARC-AGI-191%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles14%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1491—
Mystery Game Puzzles8%—
Surface Evolver Bench52.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.15—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.88—

Math Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.3 (#47), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.9%—
ProofBench21%—
LMArena Math1500—

Knowledge Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 58.4 (#36), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
LMArena Expert1513—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 42.8 (#27), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
LMArena Vision1296—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 56.0 (#25), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
LMArena Non-English1462—
LMArena Chinese1527—
LMArena French1496—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1429—
LMArena Korean1446—
LMArena Russian1469—
LMArena Spanish1471—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 77.5 (#20), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 45.4 (#39), Hermes 4 405B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 65.3 (#50), Hermes 4 405B: 52.9

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashHermes 4 405B
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1421
LMArena Multi-Turn1467—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3-Flash better than Hermes 4 405B?

GLM-5.3-Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#41); Hermes 4 405B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3-Flash or Hermes 4 405B?

GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Hermes 4 405B lists at $1 and $3.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3-Flash and Hermes 4 405B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3-Flash has 40 scored results on Noometry and Hermes 4 405B has 2.

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