# GLM-5 vs Qwen3.6-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Qwen3.6-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-qwen3-6-27b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 16
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-27B 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 62.16 to 52.73.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 51.6 for GLM-5 and 73.7 for Qwen3.6-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 50.4% and 24%.
- Qwen3.6-27B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 62.16 | 52.73 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50 (Estimated · #65/151)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #133/151)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 59.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 72.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | 53.4% | GLM-5 |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | 54.84% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1487 | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: GLM-5
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 49.1 (Supported · #80/183)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 42.6 (Supported · #128/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 77.2% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 53.5% | GLM-5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | 71.3% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.5 (#35/48)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MStar | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51.6 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.9 (Estimated · #62/181)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 49 (Estimated · #95/181)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | 66% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | 24% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.3 (#31/120)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#50/120)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 94.1% | GLM-5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | 93.8% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | 90.7% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | 84.3% | GLM-5 |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | 80.8% | 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 Qwen3.6-27B?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and Qwen3.6-27B?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 51.6 for GLM-5 and 73.7 for Qwen3.6-27B.

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

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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