Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs GLM-4.6

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.4

Rank #135 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and GLM-4.6 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.6 leads 39.1 to 25.9.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.6.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 205K.
  • GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index41.541.4
Released2026-07-212025-09-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.20
Results tracked3929

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena WebDev14401340
SciCode41.3%38.4%
LMArena Coding14531449
ALE-Bench765.27340.82
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
WeirdML39%—

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
Terminal-Bench—24.5%
APEX-Agents29.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.4%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
CritPt0%1.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411440
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—47.4%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math GLM-4.6 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Math14331432
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Expert14351431
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), GLM-4.6: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Non-English14271426
LMArena Chinese14691499
LMArena French14511459
LMArena German14541447
LMArena Japanese14271393
LMArena Korean14071400
LMArena Russian14431419
LMArena Spanish14421436

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Instruction Following14201410

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Longer Query14351422

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGLM-4.6
LMArena Text14351440
LMArena Creative Writing14201411
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591411
LMArena Multi-Turn14451427

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than GLM-4.6?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GLM-4.6?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GLM-4.6 better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GLM-4.6 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.

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