Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs GPT-5

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 42.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 6% for GLM-4.7 and 37% for GPT-5.
  • GLM-4.7 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.
  • GPT-5 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 205K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.7 and GPT-5 specifications
GLM-4.7GPT-5
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index42.050.9
Released2025-12-222025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K400K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$10
Results tracked3669

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5: 50.3 (#47)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena WebDev14351418
SciCode45.1%42.9%
LMArena Coding14541436
ALE-Bench399.481,162
SWE-bench Verified—73.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—65%
Aider Polyglot—88%
GSO—6.9%
WeirdML—60.7%
AlgoTune—1.67

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103), GPT-5: 33.1 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
Terminal-Bench33.4%49.6%
GDPval—34.8%
Remote Labor Index—1.7%
DeepResearch Bench—49.6%
BALROG—32.8%
LMArena Search—1133
METR Time Horizons—69.6%
Vending-Bench 22,377—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164), GPT-5: 38.3 (#64)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
SimpleBench47.7%56.7%
CritPt1.7%12.6%
Chess Puzzles6%37%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431416
Epoch Capabilities Index143.51150
ARC-AGI-2—9.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.7%
ARC-AGI-1—65.7%
EnigmaEval—10.5%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.7%
LMCA—40%
ForecastBench—61.4

Math GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135), GPT-5: 55.0 (#44)

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80), GPT-5: 56.6 (#43)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
GPQA Diamond83.3%86.2%
SimpleQA Verified32.2%50.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%14.7%
LMArena Expert14241419
Humanity's Last Exam—25.3%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Confabulations—10.3%
GPQA (HELM)—79.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7: —, GPT-5: 46.8 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena Vision—1232
GeoBench—81%
VPCT—66%

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79), GPT-5: 51.4 (#110)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena Non-English14171397
LMArena Chinese14951422
LMArena French14321410
LMArena German14241416
LMArena Japanese14391409
LMArena Korean13991360
LMArena Russian14231406
LMArena Spanish14341399

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95), GPT-5: 73.8 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena Instruction Following14111388
IFEval—87.5%

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena Longer Query14321399
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
CL-bench15.9%—
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93), GPT-5: 63.4 (#65)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5
LMArena Text14351406
LMArena Creative Writing14011365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14131627
LMArena Multi-Turn14461426
Short-Story Creative Writing—86%
WildBench—85.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than GPT-5?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

GLM-4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; GPT-5 lists at $1.25 and $10.

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

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 does, with 400K tokens against 205K.

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

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.

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