Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-4.6

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

40.9

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and GLM-4.6 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 23.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 69.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 24.5% for GLM-4.6.
  • GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-4.6 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.740.9
Released2025-11-182025-09-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked6729

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GLM-4.6: 39.9 (#137)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%55.4%
LMArena WebDev14391339
LMArena Coding14821449
ALE-Bench1,177340.82
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—38.4%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GLM-4.6: 32.1 (#60)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
Terminal-Bench69.4%24.5%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%72.4%
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GLM-4.6: 23.1 (#168)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%47.4%
CritPt6.9%1.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811440
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GLM-4.6: 36.4 (#115)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Math14751431
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%2.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GLM-4.6: 39.6 (#118)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%9.5%
LMArena Expert14751432
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GLM-4.6: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GLM-4.6: 53.6 (#62)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Non-English14741426
LMArena Chinese15221500
LMArena French14921459
LMArena German15171447
LMArena Japanese15131394
LMArena Korean14491401
LMArena Russian14931418
LMArena Spanish14681436

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GLM-4.6: 74.5 (#93)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Instruction Following14581410
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#91)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Longer Query14721423
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GLM-4.6: 61.3 (#86)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-4.6
LMArena Text14791440
LMArena Creative Writing14821411
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251411
LMArena Multi-Turn14841427
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-4.6?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-4.6 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-4.6 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.

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