Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GLM-5
77
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
64
Verified leaderboard positions: GLM-5 #10 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #13
Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Agentic
+4.7 difference
Coding
+3.7 difference
Knowledge
+10.2 difference
GLM-5
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$0 / $0
N/A
74 t/s
N/A
1.64s
N/A
200K
262K
Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
GLM-5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 77 to 64. 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 knowledge, where it averages 70.7 against 60.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MCP Atlas, 31.1% to 62.8%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 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. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for GLM-5.
GLM-5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 77 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MCP Atlas, where the scores are 31.1% and 62.8%.
GLM-5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.7 versus 60.5. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 63.2. Inside this category, SWE Multilingual is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GLM-5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 51.5. Inside this category, MCP Atlas is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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