Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs Grok 4.1 Fast

GLM-4.7 and Grok 4.1 Fast score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

42.0

Rank #124 Confirmed

Grok 4.1 Fast xAI

41.4

Rank #136 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 7 categories and Grok 4.1 Fast in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 Fast leads 43.4 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 47.7% for GLM-4.7 and 56% for Grok 4.1 Fast.
  • Grok 4.1 Fast is cheaper at $0.20 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
  • GLM-4.7 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.7 and Grok 4.1 Fast specifications
GLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)xAI
Noometry Index42.041.4
Released2025-12-222025-06-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K128K
Max output131K30K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$0.50
Results tracked3632

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79), Grok 4.1 Fast: 34.1 (#245)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena WebDev14351242
LMArena Coding14541411
ALE-Bench399.48394.93
SciCode45.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 Fast leads

GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103), Grok 4.1 Fast: 36.3 (#39)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
Vending-Bench 22,3771,107
Terminal-Bench33.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—69.6%
τ²-bench Banking—13.1%
LMArena Search—1171

Reasoning Grok 4.1 Fast leads

GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164), Grok 4.1 Fast: 43.4 (#49)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
SimpleBench47.7%56%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431407
NYT Connections (extended)—87.4%
CritPt1.7%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench—87.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.51—
ForecastBench—61

Math GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135), Grok 4.1 Fast: 31.9 (#221)

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80), Grok 4.1 Fast: 33.1 (#207)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%17.8%
LMArena Expert14241399
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
SimpleQA Verified32.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.7: —, Grok 4.1 Fast: 37.0 (#76)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena Vision—1201

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79), Grok 4.1 Fast: 51.0 (#114)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena Non-English14171391
LMArena Chinese14951441
LMArena French14321415
LMArena German14241404
LMArena Japanese14391349
LMArena Korean13991361
LMArena Russian14231387
LMArena Spanish14341413

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95), Grok 4.1 Fast: 72.7 (#133)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena Instruction Following14111376

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116), Grok 4.1 Fast: 42.4 (#126)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena Longer Query14321390
CL-bench15.9%—
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93), Grok 4.1 Fast: 57.2 (#131)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Grok 4.1 Fast
LMArena Text14351408
LMArena Creative Writing14011394
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14131327
LMArena Multi-Turn14461389

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than Grok 4.1 Fast?

GLM-4.7 and Grok 4.1 Fast score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7 or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

Is GLM-4.7 or Grok 4.1 Fast better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.7 does, with 205K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7 and Grok 4.1 Fast share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 Fast has 32.

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