Model comparison

GLM-4.7-Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7-Flash costs 55× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.8

Rank #180 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 20.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 0% for GLM-4.7-Flash and 64% for GPT-5.6 Sol.
  • GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $4 / $20 for GPT-5.6 Sol.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • GLM-4.7-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.7-Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
GLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index38.865.0
Released2026-01-192026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window200K1.05M
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$4
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$20
Results tracked2165

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.6 (#135), GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Coding13831498
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1618
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
GSO—76.5%
WeirdML—89.4%
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.7-Flash: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 20.9 (#229), GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
Chess Puzzles0%64%
LMArena Hard Prompts13561484
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—161.66

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 36.1 (#173), GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202558.3%100%
LMArena Math13551474
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
ProofBench—83%
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 35.5 (#184), GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
GPQA Diamond60.5%93.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%12.4%
LMArena Expert13571516
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7-Flash: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 46.5 (#158), GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English13301452
LMArena Chinese14031527
LMArena French13321477
LMArena German13371476
LMArena Korean12831442
LMArena Russian13321468
LMArena Spanish13501441
LMArena Japanese—1471

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 70.1 (#167), GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following13271482

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.9 (#148), GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query13451480

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 47.4 (#210), GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text13511457
LMArena Creative Writing12971448
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11251972
LMArena Multi-Turn13421460
EQ-Bench 4—1250

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7-Flash better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7-Flash costs 55× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7-Flash or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol lists at $4 and $20.

Is GLM-4.7-Flash or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7-Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.

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