Gemma 4 E4B vs GLM-5

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 4 E4B· GLM-5

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

GLM-5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 75 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-5's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 70.5 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 83%.

Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GLM-5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A74 t/s
TTFTN/A1.64s
Context128K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BGLM-5
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.056.2%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified58%
Claw-Eval57.7%
QwenClawBench54.1%
QwenWebBench1315
TAU3-Bench65.6%
VITA-Bench37.0%
DeepPlanning14.6%
Toolathlon38%
MCP Atlas31.1%
MCP-Tasks60.8%
WideResearch69.8%
Tau2-Airline80.5%
Tau2-Telecom98.2%
PinchBench86.4%
BFCL v470.8%
CodingGLM-5 wins
LiveCodeBench52%52%
HumanEval80%
SWE-bench Verified77.8%
SWE-bench Verified*72.8%
LiveCodeBench v685.6%
SWE-bench Pro55.1%
SWE Multilingual73.3%
NL2Repo35.9%
SWE-Rebench62.8%
React Native Evals74.2%
Multimodal & GroundedGLM-5 wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%66%
OfficeQA Pro73%
ReasoningGLM-5 wins
BBH33.1%83%
MRCRv225.4%73%
MuSR82%
LongBench v260.8%
AI-Needle63.3%
KnowledgeGLM-5 wins
GPQA58.6%86%
MMLU-Pro69.4%85.7%
MMLU91.7%
GPQA-D81.6%
SuperGPQA66.8%
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)85.8%
MMLU-Redux94.4%
C-Eval92.8%
HLE27.2%
FrontierScience74%
SimpleQA84%
Instruction Following
IFEval92.6%
IFBench72.3%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX83.1%
NOVA-6355.1%
INCLUDE84.9%
PolyMath65.2%
VWT2k-lite82.1%
MAXIFE85.6%
Mathematics
AIME 202388%
AIME 202490%
AIME 202593.3%
AIME2695.8%
AIME25 (Arcee)93.3%
HMMT Feb 202384%
HMMT Feb 202486%
HMMT Feb 202585%
HMMT Feb 202597.5%
HMMT Nov 202596.9%
HMMT Feb 202686.4%
MMAnswerBench82.5%
BRUMO 202587%
MATH-50097.4%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or GLM-5?

GLM-5 is ahead overall, 75 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 83%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or GLM-5?

GLM-5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.7 versus 65.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or GLM-5?

GLM-5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 52. Gemma 4 E4B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or GLM-5?

GLM-5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or GLM-5?

GLM-5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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