GLM-5 vs Ministral 3 8B

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

GLM-5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 32. 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 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 88 to 28.

GLM-5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B 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 8B

28.9

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
67
BrowseComp
36
58
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

GLM-5

GLM-5

41.1

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

80
HumanEval
23
46
SWE-bench Verified
16
35
LiveCodeBench
15
46
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-5

GLM-5

69.2

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

66
MMMU-Pro
27
73
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

GLM-5

GLM-5

79.4

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

84
SimpleQA
28
82
MuSR
26
83
BBH
63
77
LongBench v2
38
73
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

GLM-5

GLM-5

62.1

Ministral 3 8B

28

88
MMLU
28
86
GPQA
27
84
SuperGPQA
25
82
OpenBookQA
23
74
MMLU-Pro
52
13
HLE
3
74
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

GLM-5

GLM-5

85

Ministral 3 8B

69

85
IFEval
69

Multilingual

GLM-5

GLM-5

82.1

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

84
MGSM
63
81
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

GLM-5

GLM-5

84.8

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

88
AIME 2023
30
90
AIME 2024
32
89
AIME 2025
33
84
HMMT Feb 2023
26
86
HMMT Feb 2024
28
85
HMMT Feb 2025
27
87
BRUMO 2025
29
82
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-5 is ahead overall, 65 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 88 and 28.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.1 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-5 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 79.4 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 28.9. 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 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 69. 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 8B?

GLM-5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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