Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GLM-5.2

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5.2 costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 49 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.1

Rank #44 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 49 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and GLM-5.2 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 47.9 to 32.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 75.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 22.8% for GLM-5.2.
  • GLM-5.2 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • GLM-5.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-5.2 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index58.351.1
Released2026-04-142026-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Max output128K131K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$25$4.40
Results tracked6651

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), GLM-5.2: 51.3 (#41)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
SWE-bench Verified83.5%78.7%
FrontierCode38.5%24.5%
LMArena WebDev15581603
SciCode54.5%50.5%
WeirdML76.4%70.1%
LMArena Coding15181485
ALE-Bench1,3231,047
DeepSWE—43.8%
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), GLM-5.2: 32.4 (#63)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
APEX-Agents49.2%45.2%
τ²-bench Banking40.2%37.1%
PostTrainBench28.6%31.7%
GBAEval43.8%0%
Vending-Bench 210,9378,314
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), GLM-5.2: 42.3 (#52)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
ARC-AGI-275.8%22.8%
SimpleBench61.7%58.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%62.6%
NYT Connections (extended)39%74.3%
ARC-AGI-193.5%77%
CritPt12%20.9%
Chess Puzzles30%21%
EBR-Bench19%9.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061480
Mystery Game Puzzles28%19%
DTBench94.7%93.6%
LMCA52.2%45.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25151.78
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
Surface Evolver Bench—55.6%
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), GLM-5.2: 55.7 (#43)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#40)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
GPQA Diamond90.2%91.9%
SimpleQA Verified51.7%34.2%
LMArena Expert15211486
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), GLM-5.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), GLM-5.2: 55.8 (#26)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Non-English14801459
LMArena Chinese15311519
LMArena French15031479
LMArena German14951468
LMArena Japanese14721451
LMArena Korean14641445
LMArena Russian14941466
LMArena Spanish14951477

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), GLM-5.2: 76.9 (#34)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following14981465

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Longer Query15051479

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), GLM-5.2: 70.4 (#21)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7GLM-5.2
LMArena Text14901470
LMArena Creative Writing14861462
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141757
EQ-Bench 413111222
LMArena Multi-Turn15051469

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM-5.2?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index. GLM-5.2 costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM-5.2?

GLM-5.2 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM-5.2 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 51.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and GLM-5.2 share?

49 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.2 has 51.

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