Model comparison

GLM-4.7-Flash vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

GLM-4.7-Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.8

Rank #180 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GLM-4.7-Flash leads 40.9 to 31.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 58.3% for GLM-4.7-Flash and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.50 for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • GLM-4.7-Flash accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 41K.

Side by side

GLM-4.7-Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B specifications
GLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.838.9
Released2026-01-192025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window200K41K
Max output131K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.50
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.6 (#135), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding13831416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.7-Flash: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 20.9 (#229), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
Chess Puzzles0%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13561398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 36.1 (#173), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202558.3%70.3%
LMArena Math13551394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 35.5 (#184), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond60.5%70.1%
LMArena Expert13571396
Confabulations—12.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 46.5 (#158), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English13301372
LMArena Chinese14031433
LMArena French13321418
LMArena German13371380
LMArena Korean12831331
LMArena Russian13321370
LMArena Spanish13501404
LMArena Japanese—1337

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 70.1 (#167), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13271363

Long Context GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.9 (#148), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13451379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 47.4 (#210), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text13511384
LMArena Creative Writing12971317
LMArena Multi-Turn13421378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1125—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7-Flash better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

GLM-4.7-Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7-Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

GLM-4.7-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3-30B-A3B lists at $0.12 and $0.50.

Is GLM-4.7-Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.7-Flash does, with 200K tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7-Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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