Gemma 3 vs GLM-5.1
Google Gemma 3 | Z.ai GLM-5.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Z.ai | |
| Release date | Mar 12 2025 | Apr 7 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 744B |
Context window | — | 200k |
| 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. | — | 22% |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | — | 75% |
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.0Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? (Version 2.0 of the test.) Higher is better. | — | 63.5% |
Web browsing BrowseCompCan the AI browse the web and track down hard-to-find answers? Higher is better. | — | 68% |
Multidisciplinary reasoning Humanity's Last Exam · with toolsHumanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects. “With tools” means the AI is allowed to search the web or run code while answering. Higher is better. | — | 52.3% |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 86.2% |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | — | 1527 |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Gemma 3 shipped 391 days before GLM-5.1 | |
Which is better: Gemma 3 or GLM-5.1?
Gemma 3 and GLM-5.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemma 3 shipped 391 days before GLM-5.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemma 3 and GLM-5.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemma 3 was released by Google on Mar 12 2025.
GLM-5.1 was released by Z.ai on Apr 7 2026.