Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs GLM-4.5-Air
GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.5-Air in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.5-Air leads 56.1 to 24.1.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 38.7 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-07-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 98K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300), GLM-4.5-Air: 34.5 (#225)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1397 |
| GSO | — | 2.9% |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275), GLM-4.5-Air: 23.3 (#166)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1379 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 43% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 93.57 | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.2 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237), GLM-4.5-Air: 33.8 (#166)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1396 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 39.1% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, GLM-4.5-Air: 34.6 (#184)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 76.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1370 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multilingual GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289), GLM-4.5-Air: 49.4 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1366 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1427 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1399 |
| LMArena German | — | 1376 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1348 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1385 |
Instruction Following GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297), GLM-4.5-Air: 69.8 (#165)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 971 | 1353 |
| IFEval | — | 81.2% |
Long Context GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286), GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1367 |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.5-Air leads
Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303), GLM-4.5-Air: 56.1 (#134)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 986 | 1343 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1371 |
| WildBench | — | 78.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than GLM-4.5-Air?
GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?
GLM-4.5-Air scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 28.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and GLM-4.5-Air share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.