Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1 vs GLM-4.7

DeepSeek-R1 and GLM-4.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 42.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek

42.3

Rank #115 Confirmed

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 5 categories and GLM-4.7 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.7 leads 24.3 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 66.4% for DeepSeek-R1 and 83.3% for GLM-4.7.
  • DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper at $0.50 / $2.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 164K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1 and GLM-4.7 specifications
DeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
ProviderDeepSeekZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index42.342.0
Released2025-01-202025-12-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window164K205K
Max output64K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$2.15$2.20
Results tracked5236

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
SciCode35.7%45.1%
LMArena Coding14271454
ALE-Bench804.12399.48
Aider Polyglot71.4%—
LMArena WebDev—1435
WeirdML41.6%—
LiveBench Coding66.7%—
AlgoTune1.7—

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
Terminal-Bench—33.4%
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
BALROG34.9%—
METR Time Horizons53.8%—
Vending-Bench 2—2,377

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
SimpleBench40.8%47.7%
CritPt1.1%1.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161443
Epoch Capabilities Index141.29143.51
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark69.4%—
ARC-AGI-121.2%—
Chess Puzzles—6%
LiveBench Reasoning83.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.8%—
ForecastBench60—
LiveBench71.6%—

Math DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.4%83.3%
LMArena Math14001423
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH42.4%—
LiveBench Math80.7%—
MATH Level 596.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—2.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
GPQA Diamond76.3%83.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.3%11.7%
LMArena Expert13941424
SimpleQA Verified—32.2%
MMLU-Pro79.3%—
Confabulations12.7%—
GPQA (HELM)66.6%—

Multilingual Too close to call

DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
LMArena Non-English14121417
LMArena Chinese14421495
LMArena French14171432
LMArena German14041424
LMArena Japanese13911439
LMArena Korean13601399
LMArena Russian14231423
LMArena Spanish14111434

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
LMArena Instruction Following13821411
LiveBench Instruction Following80.5%—
IFEval78.4%—

Long Context DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
LMArena Longer Query13911432
Fiction.LiveBench75%—
CL-bench—15.9%
CL-bench Life—10.9%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1GLM-4.7
LMArena Text14281435
LMArena Creative Writing14051401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15001413
LMArena Multi-Turn14051446
Short-Story Creative Writing83%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language48.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-R1 better than GLM-4.7?

DeepSeek-R1 and GLM-4.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 42.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-R1 or GLM-4.7?

DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.15 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is DeepSeek-R1 or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.7 does, with 205K tokens against 164K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and GLM-4.7 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.

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