# GLM-5 vs QwQ-32B

> GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5 leads 66.0 to 50.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.8% for GLM-5 and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 46.1 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 66 | 159 |
| Context | 205K | — |
| Input $/M | $1 | — |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- GLM-5: 49.0 (#52)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | 1333 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 72.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1434 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 69.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 765.62 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GLM-5: 31.1 (#71)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 52.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 82.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 9.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 73.7% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 86.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,432 | — |

## Reasoning

- GLM-5: 27.6 (#116)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 10% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.83 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 61 | 58.3 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 75% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 44.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- GLM-5: 46.4 (#71)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 80% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1440 | 1359 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 65.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 16.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- GLM-5: 52.3 (#64)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.8% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | 1324 |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- GLM-5: 53.7 (#58)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1430 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1511 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1455 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1445 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1423 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1436 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-5: 75.2 (#67)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1428 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- GLM-5: 44.7 (#60)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1446 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| CL-bench | 18.7% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-5: 66.0 (#38)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1446 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1439 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1601 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1456 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-5 better than QwQ-32B?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.1 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GLM-5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and QwQ-32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.