Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs o4-mini

GLM-4.7 and o4-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 4 categories and o4-mini in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.7 leads 60.9 to 54.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 6% for GLM-4.7 and 26% for o4-mini.
  • GLM-4.7 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
  • GLM-4.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 200K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.7 and o4-mini specifications
GLM-4.7o4-mini
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index42.041.6
Released2025-12-222025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K200K
Max output131K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$4.40
Results tracked3660

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Coding14541368
ALE-Bench399.48826.17
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
LMArena WebDev1435—
SciCode45.1%—
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
Terminal-Bench33.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%
Vending-Bench 22,377—

Reasoning Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
SimpleBench47.7%38.7%
CritPt1.7%0.6%
Chess Puzzles6%26%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431351
Epoch Capabilities Index143.51145.64
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
ForecastBench—61.8

Math o4-mini leads

GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
GPQA Diamond83.3%79.6%
SimpleQA Verified32.2%19.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%18.6%
LMArena Expert14241343
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Non-English14171337
LMArena Chinese14951354
LMArena French14321364
LMArena German14241336
LMArena Japanese14391308
LMArena Korean13991312
LMArena Russian14231334
LMArena Spanish14341347

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14111321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Longer Query14321315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
CL-bench15.9%—
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7o4-mini
LMArena Text14351353
LMArena Creative Writing14011294
LMArena Multi-Turn14461350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1413—
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than o4-mini?

GLM-4.7 and o4-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7 or o4-mini?

GLM-4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is GLM-4.7 or o4-mini better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.7 does, with 205K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7 and o4-mini share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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