Coding
Directional only- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- 43.6
- Supported · #121/183
- GLM-5V-Turbo
- 55.1
- Estimated · #43/183
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 4 vs 0 public rows
- Reading
- Directional only
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See the free Radar BriefUpdated September 4, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead.
0 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
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Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
GLM-5V-Turbo is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
GLM-5V-Turbo is not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.
Confidence: limited
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. GLM-5V-Turbo does not fit this workload in one request. GLM-5V-Turbo has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Confidence: rate-fallback
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
2 categories rest on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | GLM-5V-Turbo | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 43.6Supported · #121/183 | 55.1Estimated · #43/183 | Directional onlyBenchAlign lane · 4 vs 0 public rows | Directional only |
| Knowledge | 53.0Supported · #71/181 | 53.3Estimated · #67/181 | Directional onlyBenchAlign lane · 2 vs 0 public rows | Directional only |
| Agentic | 43.4Estimated · #104/151 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 3 vs 2 public rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | 60.8Unranked · 3 rankable rows | 68.3Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 76.1#16/48 | 67.0Unranked · 1 rankable row | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | 73.7#60/120 | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
A shared-evidence shape is not available.
BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
GLM-5V-Turbo does not fit this workload in one request. GLM-5V-Turbo has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
GLM-5V-Turbo
200K
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite model documentationGLM-5V-Turbo
Not sourced
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
$0.03 per 1M cached input tokens
Google Gemini API pricingGLM-5V-Turbo
Not published
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
text, image, video, audio, pdf
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite model documentationGLM-5V-Turbo
Not sourced
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
GLM-5V-Turbo
Not sourced
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Generally Available · Gemini API, Google AI Studio
Google latest Gemini model guideGLM-5V-Turbo
Not sourced
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Reasoning
GLM-5V-Turbo
Non-Reasoning
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Proprietary
GLM-5V-Turbo
Proprietary
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Proprietary
GLM-5V-Turbo
Proprietary
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
2026-07-21
GLM-5V-Turbo
2026-03-01
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
OSWorld-Verified
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Not directly comparable
Gert Labs
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
Not directly comparable
MRCRv2
Not directly comparable
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher for coding on the public lane, 55.1 to 43.6. GLM-5V-Turbo is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for coding from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
GLM-5V-Turbo is not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.00155 on Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and $0.0032 on GLM-5V-Turbo; repository review costs $0.0225 and $0.072; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.037 and $0.304. GLM-5V-Turbo does not fit this workload in one request. GLM-5V-Turbo has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 200K.
Last updated September 4, 2026
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