# GLM-5 vs Qwen3.5 397B

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 26
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 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 leads overall 61.45 to 54.7.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 88.5 for GLM-5 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepPlanning in Agentic, with scores of 14.6% and 37.6%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GLM-5 also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | 61.45 | 54.7 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51 (Estimated · #45/152)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #71/152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 52.5% | GLM-5 |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 56.8% | GLM-5 |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | 51.8% | GLM-5 |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | 68.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | 37.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Toolathlon | 38% | 36.3% | GLM-5 |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | 46.1% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | 74.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | 74.0% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | 46.76% | GLM-5 |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.1 (Estimated · #39/151)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #59/151)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 76.2% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 50.9% | GLM-5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

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

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | 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 public-lane score: 52.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | 63.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | 68.7% | Qwen3.5 397B |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Estimated · #57/183)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #77/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 88.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | 70.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | 87.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | 28.7% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.5 (#31/123)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#123/123)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 92.6% | Tie |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.5 397B
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | 84.7% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | 59.1% | Qwen3.5 397B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 93.3% | GLM-5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | 94.8% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | 92.7% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | 87.9% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | 80.9% | GLM-5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 16.434% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 88.5 for GLM-5 and 0 for Qwen3.5 397B.

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

GLM-5 currently has 36 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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