# Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GLM-5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.8 Flash and GLM-5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Gemini 3.8 Flash and GLM-5.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.8 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 3.8 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) | 69.25 | 54.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.75 / $3.75 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 65.9 (Supported · #16/128)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 41.5 (Estimated · #63/128)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Finance Agent v2 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 19.10% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 59.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 81.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 24% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 38.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 62.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 50.4% | 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 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #17/150)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38 (Estimated · #70/150)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 19.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 39.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 18.0 fixes | 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 |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 74.3 (#17/28)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 70.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 10.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 87.3 (#9/54)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv w/o tools | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 73.5 (Supported · #13/184)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #79/184)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE-Verified | 54.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 94.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 90.2% | 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 | 30.5% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/17)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.6 (#35/148)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 5.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 69.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 83 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 68.421% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 21.951% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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

### Can I compare Gemini 3.8 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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