Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and GLM-4.7 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.7 leads 47.0 to 36.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 17.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 33.4% for GLM-4.7.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 205K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and GLM-4.7 specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
ProviderGoogleZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index39.342.0
Released2025-04-172025-12-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M205K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.20
Results tracked5436

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Coding14241454
ALE-Bench661.88399.48
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
LMArena WebDev—1435
SciCode—45.1%
WeirdML41.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
Terminal-Bench17.1%33.4%
Vending-Bench 2548.842,377
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
SimpleBench41.2%47.7%
CritPt1.1%1.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14221443
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03143.51
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%83.3%
LMArena Math14151423
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%2.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%0%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH38.5%—

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%11.7%
LMArena Expert14261424
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—32.2%
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), GLM-4.7: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Non-English14091417
LMArena Chinese14501495
LMArena French14331432
LMArena German14181424
LMArena Japanese14051439
LMArena Korean13851399
LMArena Russian14151423
LMArena Spanish14211434

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Instruction Following14051411
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Longer Query14191432
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—
CL-bench—15.9%
CL-bench Life—10.9%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGLM-4.7
LMArena Text14171435
LMArena Creative Writing14001401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11371413
LMArena Multi-Turn14081446
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than GLM-4.7?

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GLM-4.7?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and GLM-4.7 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.

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