Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GLM-5.2

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 50.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5.2 costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 48 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.4

Rank #17 Confirmed

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

50.9

Rank #38 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 48 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and GLM-5.2 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 47.9 to 31.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 75.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 22.8% for GLM-5.2.
  • GLM-5.2 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • GLM-5.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-5.2 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index58.450.9
Released2026-04-142026-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$25$4.40
Results tracked6650

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.9 (#10), GLM-5.2: 50.9 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
SWE-bench Verified83.5%78.7%
FrontierCode38.5%24.5%
LMArena WebDev15571604
SciCode54.5%50.5%
WeirdML76.4%70.1%
LMArena Coding15191484
ALE-Bench1,3231,047
DeepSWE—43.8%
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#8), GLM-5.2: 31.6 (#63)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
τ²-bench Banking40.2%37.1%
PostTrainBench28.6%31.7%
GBAEval43.8%0%
Vending-Bench 210,9378,314
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.7 (#24), GLM-5.2: 42.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
ARC-AGI-275.8%22.8%
SimpleBench61.7%58.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%62.6%
NYT Connections (extended)39%74.3%
ARC-AGI-193.5%77%
CritPt12%20.9%
Chess Puzzles30%21%
EBR-Bench19%9.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15071480
Mystery Game Puzzles28%19%
DTBench94.7%93.6%
LMCA52.2%45.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39151.76
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
Surface Evolver Bench—55.6%
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.5 (#20), GLM-5.2: 55.4 (#35)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#20), GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#36)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
GPQA Diamond90.2%91.9%
SimpleQA Verified51.7%34.2%
LMArena Expert15211484
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.5 (#29), GLM-5.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Vision1317—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.5 (#9), GLM-5.2: 56.0 (#25)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Non-English14811459
LMArena Chinese15301518
LMArena French15051476
LMArena German14941470
LMArena Japanese14721451
LMArena Korean14661445
LMArena Russian14941467
LMArena Spanish14971477

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.6 (#9), GLM-5.2: 77.1 (#32)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following14981465

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.1 (#24), GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Longer Query15051479

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.3 (#8), GLM-5.2: 70.7 (#20)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Text14911470
LMArena Creative Writing14861465
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141757
EQ-Bench 413111222
LMArena Multi-Turn15061468

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM-5.2?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 50.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5.2 costs 4.7× 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-5.2?

GLM-5.2 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM-5.2 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 50.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-5.2 share?

48 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.2 has 50.

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