# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GLM-5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.5 Flash and GLM-5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.5 Flash leads overall 63.95 to 55.06.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 64 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 48.5 for GLM-5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 83.6% and 31.1%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 63.95 | 55.06 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 36 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $9.00 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #42/119)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38.8 (Estimated · #62/119)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 83.6% | 31.1% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Toolathlon | 56.5% | 38% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Finance Agent v2 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | 50.99% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 57.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.1% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.6% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 52.3 (Supported · #39/144)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 40.4 (Estimated · #63/144)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 55.1% | Tie |
| Vibe Code Bench | 48.68% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 62.8 (#20/27)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 77.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR 1M | 26.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 87.8 (#6/49)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 33.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 64 (Supported · #30/171)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.5 (Estimated · #72/171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 92.7% | 86.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| HLE | 40.2% | 50.4% | GLM-5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/16)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 84.1 (#43/125)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#31/125)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 38.966% | 16.434% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.583% | 2.100% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.5 Flash or GLM-5?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.5 Flash and GLM-5?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 64 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 48.5 for GLM-5.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.5 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.5 Flash currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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