Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs GLM-5
GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5 in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where GLM-5 leads 49.0 to 28.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 72.8% for GLM-5.
- GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 45.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2026-02-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 205K |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3.20 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), GLM-5: 49.0 (#47)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | 72.8% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | 48.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1461 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.1% |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1434 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 69.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 765.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), GLM-5: 30.9 (#65)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 52.4% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 82.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 9.8% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 73.7% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 86.8% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,432 |
Reasoning GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), GLM-5: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 53.2% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 75% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1451 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 145.84 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 44.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 10% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 61 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), GLM-5: 44.8 (#66)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 80% |
| LMArena Math | 1351 | 1440 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 16.4% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 65.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), GLM-5: 52.2 (#59)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 87.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | 1454 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), GLM-5: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), GLM-5: 53.9 (#57)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1390 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1354 | 1445 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | 1421 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1436 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1452 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), GLM-5: 75.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1427 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), GLM-5: 44.6 (#58)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | 1446 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 18.7% |
Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), GLM-5: 66.2 (#38)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1446 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1438 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | 1601 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1456 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than GLM-5?
GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or GLM-5 better for coding?
GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and GLM-5 share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.