Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2'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-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 9 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 6% for GLM-4.7 and 49% for GPT-5.2.
  • GLM-4.7 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.2.
  • GPT-5.2 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-5.2 specifications
GLM-4.7GPT-5.2
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index42.054.1
Released2025-12-222025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K400K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$1.75
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$14
Results tracked3667

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79), GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
LMArena WebDev14351416
LMArena Coding14541447
ALE-Bench399.481,294
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
SciCode45.1%—
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
AlgoTune—2.05

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103), GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench33.4%64.9%
Vending-Bench 22,3773,591
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
SimpleBench47.7%45.8%
Chess Puzzles6%49%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431445
Epoch Capabilities Index143.51153.45
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
CritPt1.7%—
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%
ForecastBench—60.1

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135), GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80), GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
GPQA Diamond83.3%91.4%
SimpleQA Verified32.2%37.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%8.4%
LMArena Expert14241445
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7: —, GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English14171425
LMArena Chinese14951460
LMArena French14321455
LMArena German14241448
LMArena Japanese14391420
LMArena Korean13991392
LMArena Russian14231440
LMArena Spanish14341433

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following14111417

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
CL-bench15.9%18.2%
LMArena Longer Query14321428
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7GPT-5.2
LMArena Text14351439
LMArena Creative Writing14011401
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14131703
LMArena Multi-Turn14461458

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.7 costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7 or GPT-5.2?

GLM-4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 lists at $1.75 and $14.

Is GLM-4.7 or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.2 does, with 400K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7 and GPT-5.2 share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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