GLM-5 (Reasoning) vs Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

GLM-5 (Reasoning)· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

GLM-5 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 82 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-5 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 87.4 against 62. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is DeepPlanning, 14.6% to 41.5%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for GLM-5 (Reasoning).

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGLM-5 (Reasoning)Qwen3.6 Plus
AgenticGLM-5 (Reasoning) wins
Terminal-Bench 2.081%61.6%
BrowseComp80%
OSWorld-Verified74%62.5%
DeepPlanning14.6%41.5%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins
HumanEval88%
SWE-bench Verified62%78.8%
LiveCodeBench58%
SWE-bench Pro67%56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro74%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro84%
MMMU86.0%
RealWorldQA85.4%
OmniDocBench 1.591.2%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.8%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)84.2%
MathVision88.0%
We-Math89.0%
DynaMath88.0%
MStar83.3%
SimpleVQA67.3%
ChatCVQA81.5%
MMLongBench-Doc62.0%
CC-OCR83.4%
AI2D_TEST94.4%
CountBench97.6%
RefCOCO (avg)93.5%
ODINW1351.8%
ERQA65.7%
VideoMMMU84.0%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
ReasoningGLM-5 (Reasoning) wins
MuSR90%
BBH91%
LongBench v286%62%
MRCRv287%
AI-Needle68.3%
KnowledgeGLM-5 (Reasoning) wins
MMLU96%
GPQA94%90.4%
SuperGPQA92%71.6%
MMLU-Pro81%88.5%
HLE29%28.8%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA92%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval92%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualGLM-5 (Reasoning) wins
MGSM89%
MMLU-ProX85%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202398%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202394%
HMMT Feb 202496%
HMMT Feb 202595%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50092%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GLM-5 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 82 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is DeepPlanning, where the scores are 14.6% and 41.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GLM-5 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 66. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 62.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GLM-5 (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 62. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GLM-5 (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 62. Inside this category, DeepPlanning is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 78.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 92. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GLM-5 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.6 Plus?

GLM-5 (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.4 versus 84.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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