Model comparison

GLM-4.7-Flash vs GPT-5 Nano

GLM-4.7-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.4

Rank #175 Confirmed

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GLM-4.7-Flash leads 40.9 to 31.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 0% for GLM-4.7-Flash and 27% for GPT-5 Nano.
  • GPT-5 Nano is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.06 / $0.40 for GLM-4.7-Flash.
  • GPT-5 Nano accepts more context: 400K 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 Nano specifications
GLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index38.433.4
Released2026-01-192025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window200K400K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.40
Results tracked2148

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.0 (#133), GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Coding13831351
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.7-Flash: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 20.2 (#224), GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
Chess Puzzles0%27%
LMArena Hard Prompts13561329
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.39
ForecastBench—59.1

Math GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 34.4 (#159), GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202558.3%81.1%
LMArena Math13541318
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
MATH Level 5—95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Too close to call

GLM-4.7-Flash: 35.4 (#177), GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond60.5%69.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%10.5%
LMArena Expert13571321
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7-Flash: —, GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 46.8 (#152), GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English13311313
LMArena Chinese14031355
LMArena German13361329
LMArena Korean12841269
LMArena Russian13331296
LMArena Spanish13511360
LMArena French1332—

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 70.3 (#162), GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Instruction Following13271306
IFEval—93.2%

Long Context GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.9 (#143), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Longer Query13451313
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 47.7 (#206), GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text13511320
LMArena Creative Writing12971250
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1125705
LMArena Multi-Turn13421311
WildBench—80.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7-Flash better than GPT-5 Nano?

GLM-4.7-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7-Flash or GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7-Flash lists at $0.06 and $0.40.

Is GLM-4.7-Flash or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Nano does, with 400K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7-Flash and GPT-5 Nano share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 48.

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