Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

GLM-5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu)

54.8

Rank #26 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and GLM-5.3 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-5.3 leads 46.1 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 91.1% for GLM-5.3.
  • GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GLM-5.3 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index39.554.8
Released2025-02-242026-08-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked5842

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Coding13611496
SWE-bench Verified61%—
DeepSWE—69%
FrontierCode—40.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
CursorBench—42.6%
LMArena WebDev—1622
FrontierSWE—30.2%
SciCode—59%
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—75.4%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—1,317

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
APEX-Agents—56.6%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—8,164

Reasoning GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Hard Prompts13331489
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16155.61
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.2%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
CritPt—19.1%
Chess Puzzles—21%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—33%
DTBench—87.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—55.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.15
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%91.1%
LMArena Math13371489
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—68.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—29.3%
ProofBench—49%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond79.7%90.9%
LMArena Expert13211516
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—41%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), GLM-5.3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Non-English12961457
LMArena Chinese12991528
LMArena French13031499
LMArena German13011499
LMArena Japanese12671453
LMArena Korean12491472
LMArena Russian13111463
LMArena Spanish12981460

Instruction Following GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Instruction Following13521477
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Longer Query13731482
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGLM-5.3
LMArena Text13141471
LMArena Creative Writing13321457
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14122075
LMArena Multi-Turn13391472
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GLM-5.3 better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GLM-5.3 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 42.

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