# GLM-5.2 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-2-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 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 43.9.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 58.5 for GLM-5.2 and 40.2 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 54.7% and 21.4%.
- GLM-5.2 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 68.19 | 43.9 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.40 / $4.40 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 58.5 (Supported · #29/153)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 40.2 (Estimated · #116/153)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 4.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81% | 51.5% | GLM-5.2 |
| MCP Atlas | 76.8% | 62.8% | GLM-5.2 |
| Toolathlon | 48.2% | 26.9% | GLM-5.2 |
| ResearchClawBench | 20.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 35.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #19/152)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45 (Estimated · #91/152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 62.1% | 49.5% | GLM-5.2 |
| NL2Repo | 48.9% | 29.4% | GLM-5.2 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81.0% | 51.5% | GLM-5.2 |
| 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 | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50.1 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 20.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #35/183)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #116/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.2% | 86% | GLM-5.2 |
| GPQA-D | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 54.7% | 21.4% | 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 |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 89.8 (#22/123)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#57/123)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 80.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 99.2% | 92.7% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 94.4% | 89.1% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 92.5% | 83.6% | GLM-5.2 |
| MMAnswerBench | 91.0% | 78.9% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5.2 or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

GLM-5.2 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 58.5 for GLM-5.2 and 40.2 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### 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 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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