# Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GLM-5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-6-flash-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 70.11 | 62.16 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 36 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $7.50 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #60/151)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50 (Estimated · #65/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OSWorld-Verified | 83% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 73.8% | 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 |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 31.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.99% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 58.9 (Supported · #30/183)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 49.1 (Supported · #80/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| deepSwe | 49% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 55.1% | 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 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 82.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 77.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51.6 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 68.6 (Supported · #18/181)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.9 (Estimated · #62/181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 86.0% | 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 |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.3 (#31/120)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 16.434% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 2.100% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Gemini 3.6 Flash and GLM-5 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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- [GLM-5 vs GLM-5.2](/compare/glm-5-vs-glm-5-2)

## Explore More

- [Gemini 3.6 Flash profile](/models/gemini-3-6-flash)
- [GLM-5 profile](/models/glm-5)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)