Model comparison

GLM-4.7 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

GLM-4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.7 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.7

Rank #117 Confirmed

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

40.9

Rank #134 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7 scores higher in 6 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.7 leads 47.0 to 36.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 47.7% for GLM-4.7 and 26.3% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
  • Both cost about the same: $0.60 input and $2.20 output per million tokens.
  • Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 205K.

Side by side

GLM-4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) specifications
GLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Moonshot AI
Noometry Index41.740.9
Released2025-12-222025-07-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K262K
Max output131K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.57
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$2.30
Results tracked3642

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GLM-4.7: 43.6 (#74), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Coding14541399
ALE-Bench399.48597.5
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—63.4%
Aider Polyglot—59.1%
LMArena WebDev1435—
SciCode45.1%—
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—42.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

GLM-4.7: 26.4 (#96), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Terminal-Bench33.4%35.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—59.1%
METR Time Horizons—59.2%
Vending-Bench 22,377—

Reasoning GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 23.7 (#161), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
SimpleBench47.7%26.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431384
Epoch Capabilities Index143.53146.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—64.4%
CritPt1.7%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
ForecastBench—60.2

Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

GLM-4.7: 37.7 (#92), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Math14231396
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.4%21.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.3%—
ProofBench6%—
Omni-MATH—65.4%

Knowledge GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#74), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.7%17.9%
LMArena Expert14241363
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
SimpleQA Verified32.2%—
MMLU-Pro—81.9%
Confabulations—20.4%
GPQA (HELM)—65.3%

Multilingual GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 53.0 (#75), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Non-English14171372
LMArena Chinese14951416
LMArena French14321379
LMArena German14261386
LMArena Japanese14391349
LMArena Korean14011324
LMArena Russian14231384
LMArena Spanish14331383

Instruction Following GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 74.6 (#90), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following14111347
IFEval—85%

Long Context GLM-4.7 leads

GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#111), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
CL-bench15.9%17.6%
LMArena Longer Query14321353
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench Life10.9%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

GLM-4.7: 61.1 (#89), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Text14361380
LMArena Creative Writing14011349
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14131666
LMArena Multi-Turn14461371
Short-Story Creative Writing—85.6%
WildBench—86.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

GLM-4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.7 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.7 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

GLM-4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) lists at $0.57 and $2.30.

Is GLM-4.7 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (43.6 vs 43.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) does, with 262K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7 has 36 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.

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