# GLM-5.2 vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-2-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5 397B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GLM-5.2 leads overall 68.19 to 54.84.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 89.8 for GLM-5.2 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 76.8% and 46.1%.
- Qwen3.5 397B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GLM-5.2 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Overall Score | 68.19 | 54.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.40 / $4.40 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 58.5 (Supported · #29/153)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #73/153)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 4.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81% | 52.5% | GLM-5.2 |
| MCP Atlas | 76.8% | 46.1% | GLM-5.2 |
| Toolathlon | 48.2% | 36.3% | GLM-5.2 |
| ResearchClawBench | 20.7% | 14.2% | GLM-5.2 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #19/152)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.3 (Estimated · #60/152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 62.1% | 50.9% | GLM-5.2 |
| NL2Repo | 48.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 63.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 55.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 69.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63 (#27/48)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 20.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #35/183)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #82/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.2% | 88.4% | GLM-5.2 |
| GPQA-D | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 54.7% | 28.7% | GLM-5.2 |
| HLE w/o tools | 40.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 89.8 (#22/123)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#123/123)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 80.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 99.2% | 93.3% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 94.4% | 92.7% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 92.5% | 87.9% | GLM-5.2 |
| MMAnswerBench | 91.0% | 80.9% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5.2 or Qwen3.5 397B?

GLM-5.2 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 89.8 for GLM-5.2 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5.2 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5.2 currently has 25 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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