Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 vs GLM-4.7-Flash
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7-Flash costs 69× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and GLM-4.7-Flash in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.6 to 20.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 86.1% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 58.3% for GLM-4.7-Flash.
- GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.5.
- GLM-4.7-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 50.5 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2025-11-01 | 2026-01-19 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 200K |
| Max output | 64K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.06 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 69 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.6 (#135)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1504 | 1383 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 76.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1494 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 70.7% | — |
| GSO | 26.5% | — |
| WeirdML | 63.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,025 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.77 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), GLM-4.7-Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 63.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 77.5% | — |
| GDPval | 45.5% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 3.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 84% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 24.7% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 79.6% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 92.3% | — |
| Cybench | 82% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54.8% | — |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1180 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 75% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,967 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), GLM-4.7-Flash: 20.9 (#229)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1476 | 1356 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 37.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 62% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 52.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 80% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.9% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 14.3% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 22% | — |
| DTBench | 89.9% | — |
| LMCA | 44.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.09 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), GLM-4.7-Flash: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.1% | 58.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1463 | 1355 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 34.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 36% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 20.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), GLM-4.7-Flash: 35.5 (#184)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86% | 60.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1487 | 1357 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 25.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), GLM-4.7-Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GeoBench | 75% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1462 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), GLM-4.7-Flash: 46.5 (#158)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1438 | 1330 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1470 | 1403 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1332 |
| LMArena German | 1449 | 1337 |
| LMArena Korean | 1424 | 1283 |
| LMArena Russian | 1447 | 1332 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1458 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), GLM-4.7-Flash: 70.1 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1478 | 1327 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.9 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1480 | 1345 |
| CL-bench | 21.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), GLM-4.7-Flash: 47.4 (#210)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | GLM-4.7-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1451 | 1351 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1445 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1687 | 1125 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1466 | 1342 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than GLM-4.7-Flash?
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7-Flash costs 69× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or GLM-4.7-Flash?
GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5 lists at $5 and $25.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or GLM-4.7-Flash better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 200K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and GLM-4.7-Flash share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7-Flash has 21.