Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GLM-4.7

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and GLM-4.7 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 54% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 6% for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 205K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-4.7 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index58.342.0
Released2026-04-142025-12-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M205K
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$25$2.20
Results tracked6636

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena WebDev15581435
SciCode54.5%45.1%
LMArena Coding15181454
ALE-Bench1,323399.48
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
Terminal-Bench80.2%33.4%
Vending-Bench 210,9372,377
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
SimpleBench61.7%47.7%
CritPt12%1.7%
Chess Puzzles30%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061443
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25143.51
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
GPQA Diamond90.2%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified51.7%32.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%11.7%
LMArena Expert15211424
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), GLM-4.7: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena Non-English14801417
LMArena Chinese15311495
LMArena French15031432
LMArena German14951424
LMArena Japanese14721439
LMArena Korean14641399
LMArena Russian14941423
LMArena Spanish14951434

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena Instruction Following14981411

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena Longer Query15051432
CL-bench—15.9%
CL-bench Life—10.9%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-4.7
LMArena Text14901435
LMArena Creative Writing14861401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141413
LMArena Multi-Turn15051446
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM-4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM-4.7?

GLM-4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-4.7 share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.

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