GLM-5 vs Ministral 3 3B

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

GLM-5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 27. 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 79.4 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 80 to 15.

GLM-5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

GLM-5

GLM-5

62.3

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
67
BrowseComp
33
58
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

GLM-5

GLM-5

41.1

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

80
HumanEval
15
46
SWE-bench Verified
8
35
LiveCodeBench
7
46
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-5

GLM-5

69.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

66
MMMU-Pro
25
73
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

GLM-5

GLM-5

79.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

84
SimpleQA
22
82
MuSR
20
83
BBH
57
77
LongBench v2
32
73
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

GLM-5

GLM-5

62.1

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

88
MMLU
24
86
GPQA
23
84
SuperGPQA
21
82
OpenBookQA
19
74
MMLU-Pro
48
13
HLE
1
74
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

GLM-5

GLM-5

85

Ministral 3 3B

67

85
IFEval
67

Multilingual

GLM-5

GLM-5

82.1

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

84
MGSM
61
81
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

GLM-5

GLM-5

84.8

Ministral 3 3B

36

88
AIME 2023
23
90
AIME 2024
25
89
AIME 2025
24
84
HMMT Feb 2023
19
86
HMMT Feb 2024
21
85
HMMT Feb 2025
20
87
BRUMO 2025
22
82
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 is ahead overall, 65 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 80 and 15.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.1 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 79.4 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 3B?

GLM-5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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