Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.7 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.7 leads 47.0 to 37.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 37.8% for DeepSeek-V3 and 83.3% for GLM-4.7.
  • DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper at $0.24 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 164K.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and GLM-4.7 specifications
DeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
ProviderDeepSeekZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index39.542.0
Released2024-12-262025-12-22
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K205K
Max output164K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.24$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$2.20
Results tracked6036

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
SciCode35.8%45.1%
LMArena Coding13681454
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
LMArena WebDev—1435
WeirdML36.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct50%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%—
ALE-Bench—399.48
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
Terminal-Bench—33.4%
METR Time Horizons49.6%—
Vending-Bench 2—2,377

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
SimpleBench27.2%47.7%
CritPt0%1.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13651443
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94143.51
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
Chess Puzzles—6%
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%—
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag88.9%—
LiveBench66.9%—
PIQA84.7%—
WinoGrande85.2%—

Math GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%83.3%
LMArena Math13731423
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%2.4%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
MATH Level 575.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
GPQA Diamond67.6%83.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%11.7%
LMArena Expert13511424
SimpleQA Verified—32.2%
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%—
MMLU87.2%—
TriviaQA82.9%—

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
LMArena Non-English13581417
LMArena Chinese13911495
LMArena French13851432
LMArena German13741424
LMArena Japanese13331439
LMArena Korean13191399
LMArena Russian13731423
LMArena Spanish13581434

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
LMArena Instruction Following13451411
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—

Long Context GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
LMArena Longer Query13521432
Fiction.LiveBench50%—
CL-bench—15.9%
CL-bench Life—10.9%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3GLM-4.7
LMArena Text13751435
LMArena Creative Writing13641401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14721413
LMArena Multi-Turn13891446
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
WildBench83%—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than GLM-4.7?

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3 or GLM-4.7?

DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.24 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 42.3 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-V3 and GLM-4.7 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.

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