Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GLM-4.6V

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.3

Rank #137 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and GLM-4.6V in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.6V leads 27.6 to 18.6.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GLM-4.6V specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index39.541.3
Released2025-02-242025-12-08
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$0.90
Results tracked5812

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Coding13611390
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), GLM-4.6V: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Hard Prompts13331368
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), GLM-4.6V: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1337—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Expert13211371
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal GLM-4.6V leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Vision11691164
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Non-English12961359
LMArena Chinese12991425
LMArena Russian13111340
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Instruction Following13521352
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Longer Query13731358
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-4.6V
LMArena Text13141377
LMArena Creative Writing13321347
LMArena Multi-Turn13391360
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GLM-4.6V better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.6 vs 40.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GLM-4.6V share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.

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