Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-5.1

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 47.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)

47.6

Rank #51 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and GLM-5.1 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 40.5 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 55.1% for GLM-5.1.
  • GLM-5.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.1 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.747.6
Released2025-11-182026-04-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—200K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked6741

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), GLM-5.1: 48.5 (#52)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
SWE-bench Verified72.9%74.2%
LMArena WebDev14391509
WeirdML69.9%57.1%
LMArena Coding14821486
ALE-Bench1,177887.1
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—43.8%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), GLM-5.1: 24.8 (#106)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
Vending-Bench 25,4785,634
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—40.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
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%—
ExploitBench—18.1%
GBAEval—0%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), GLM-5.1: 38.2 (#57)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
SimpleBench76.4%55.1%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%77.7%
CritPt6.9%4.6%
Chess Puzzles31%19%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811472
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96149.86
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Thematic Generalization—69.8%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), GLM-5.1: 49.0 (#48)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%67.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%93.3%
ProofBench20%22.2%
LMArena Math14751472
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%33.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%12.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.8%
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#45)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
GPQA Diamond92.6%89.9%
LMArena Expert14751477
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—34%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), GLM-5.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), GLM-5.1: 55.2 (#34)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Non-English14741448
LMArena Chinese15221516
LMArena French14921478
LMArena German15171466
LMArena Japanese15131436
LMArena Korean14491423
LMArena Russian14931453
LMArena Spanish14681467

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), GLM-5.1: 76.5 (#41)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following14581451
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#51)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Longer Query14721467
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), GLM-5.1: 67.2 (#29)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.1
LMArena Text14791462
LMArena Creative Writing14821454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251592
LMArena Multi-Turn14841473
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-5.1?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 47.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-5.1 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 48.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.1 share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.1 has 41.

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