Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs GLM-5.3

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.8 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

GLM-5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu)

54.8

Rank #26 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and GLM-5.3 in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5.3 leads 62.3 to 49.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 20% for Gemini 3 Pro and 49% for GLM-5.3.
  • GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.3 specifications
Gemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.854.8
Released2025-11-182026-08-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked6742

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena WebDev14401622
WeirdML69.9%75.4%
LMArena Coding14811496
ALE-Bench1,1771,317
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
DeepSWE—69%
FrontierCode—40.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
CursorBench—42.6%
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
FrontierSWE—30.2%
SciCode—59%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
Vending-Bench 25,4788,164
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—56.6%
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%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%74.2%
CritPt6.9%19.1%
Chess Puzzles31%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801489
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92155.61
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—33%
DTBench—87.7%
LMCA—55.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.15
ForecastBench61.2—

Math GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond92.6%90.9%
LMArena Expert14751516
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—41%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), GLM-5.3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena Non-English14741457
LMArena Chinese15231528
LMArena French14921499
LMArena German15151499
LMArena Japanese15101453
LMArena Korean14481472
LMArena Russian14931463
LMArena Spanish14701460

Instruction Following GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena Instruction Following14581477
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena Longer Query14711482
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGLM-5.3
LMArena Text14791471
LMArena Creative Writing14821457
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15252075
LMArena Multi-Turn14841472
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than GLM-5.3?

Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.8 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or GLM-5.3 better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and GLM-5.3 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 42.

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