Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GLM-4-9B
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Z.ai GLM-4-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Z.ai | |
| Release date | Mar 25 2025 | Jun 5 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 9B |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 20% | — |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 59.6% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 86.4% | — |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GLM-4-9B shipped 293 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
Which is better: Gemini 2.5 Pro or GLM-4-9B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro and GLM-4-9B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. GLM-4-9B shipped 293 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary, while GLM-4-9B is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 2.5 Pro and GLM-4-9B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
GLM-4-9B was released by Z.ai on Jun 5 2024.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is a proprietary model released by Google. GLM-4-9B is an open weight model released by Z.ai.
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