Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and GLM-4.7 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-4.7 leads 38.6 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 83.3% for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GLM-4.7 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index34.642.0
Released2024-06-202025-12-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked6036

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Coding13421454
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1435
SciCode—45.1%
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
ALE-Bench—399.48
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
Terminal-Bench—33.4%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—
Vending-Bench 2—2,377

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
SimpleBench41.4%47.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13051443
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55143.51
CritPt—1.7%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%83.3%
LMArena Math13071423
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%2.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%0%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
GPQA Diamond55.3%83.3%
LMArena Expert12651424
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—32.2%
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.7%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), GLM-4.7: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Non-English12831417
LMArena Chinese12721495
LMArena French13051432
LMArena German12971424
LMArena Japanese12341439
LMArena Korean12001399
LMArena Russian13061423
LMArena Spanish12901434

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Instruction Following12971411
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Longer Query13111432
CL-bench—15.9%
CL-bench Life—10.9%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGLM-4.7
LMArena Text12981435
LMArena Creative Writing12921401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14511413
LMArena Multi-Turn13261446
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than GLM-4.7?

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GLM-4.7 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.

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