Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs gpt-oss-120b

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. gpt-oss-120b costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and gpt-oss-120b in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GLM-4.7 leads 26.5 to 12.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 47.7% for GLM-4.7 and 22.1% for gpt-oss-120b.
  • gpt-oss-120b is cheaper at $0.037 / $0.17 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GLM-4.7 and gpt-oss-120b specifications
GLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index42.036.3
Released2025-12-222025-08-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K131K
Max output131K41K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.037
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$0.17
Results tracked3648

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79), gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
SciCode45.1%36%
LMArena Coding14541380
ALE-Bench399.48575.62
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—26%
Aider Polyglot—41.8%
LMArena WebDev1435—
WeirdML—48.2%
AlgoTune—1.41

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103), gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
Terminal-Bench33.4%18.7%
Vending-Bench 22,377-21.53
APEX-Agents—4.4%
METR Time Horizons—56.6%

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164), gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
SimpleBench47.7%22.1%
CritPt1.7%1.1%
Chess Puzzles6%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431364
Epoch Capabilities Index143.51139.93
Kagi LLM Benchmark—58.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles—2%
DTBench—76.3%
LMCA—22.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—25%

Math gpt-oss-120b leads

GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135), gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.3%88.9%
LMArena Math14231389
ProofBench6%—
Omni-MATH—68.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80), gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
GPQA Diamond83.3%75.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%14.2%
LMArena Expert14241356
SimpleQA Verified32.2%—
MMLU-Pro—79.5%
Confabulations—15.7%
GPQA (HELM)—68.4%

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79), gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Non-English14171351
LMArena Chinese14951385
LMArena French14321369
LMArena German14241353
LMArena Japanese14391331
LMArena Korean13991282
LMArena Russian14231343
LMArena Spanish14341389

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95), gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Instruction Following14111318
IFEval—83.6%

Long Context GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116), gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Longer Query14321319
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
CL-bench15.9%—
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93), gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Text14351365
LMArena Creative Writing14011275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1413961
LMArena Multi-Turn14461340
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.1%
WildBench—84.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than gpt-oss-120b?

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. gpt-oss-120b costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7 or gpt-oss-120b?

gpt-oss-120b is cheaper. It lists at $0.037 per million input tokens and $0.17 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is GLM-4.7 or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.7 does, with 205K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7 and gpt-oss-120b share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.

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