Noometry

Model comparison

GLM-5 vs Grok 4.7

GLM-5 and Grok 4.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (45.9 vs 46.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

45.9

Rank #59 Confirmed

Grok 4.7 xAI

46.6

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5 scores higher in 5 categories and Grok 4.7 in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5 leads 52.2 to 38.7.
  • GLM-5 is cheaper at $1 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.7.
  • Grok 4.7 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 205K.
  • GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-5Grok 4.7
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)xAI
Noometry Index45.946.6
Released2026-02-112026-09-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K500K
Max output131K500K
Input $ / M tokens$1$2
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$6
Results tracked4521

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

GLM-5: 49.0 (#47), Grok 4.7: 55.0 (#23)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena WebDev14341636
LMArena Coding14611423
SWE-bench Verified72.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
CursorBench—46.3%
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%—
FrontierSWE—29.5%
SciCode—57.4%
WeirdML48.2%—
ALE-Bench765.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5: 30.9 (#65), Grok 4.7: —

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
Terminal-Bench52.4%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking9.8%—
τ²-bench Retail73.7%—
τ²-bench Telecom86.8%—
Vending-Bench 24,432—

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

GLM-5: 27.6 (#100), Grok 4.7: 40.1 (#49)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%76.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14511409
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
ARC-AGI-144.7%—
CritPt—17.7%
Chess Puzzles10%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.84—
ForecastBench61—

Math GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.8 (#66), Grok 4.7: 41.1 (#73)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Math14401393
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions65.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
ProofBench—34%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)16.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 52.2 (#59), Grok 4.7: 38.7 (#130)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Expert14541413
GPQA Diamond87.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5: —, Grok 4.7: 28.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
Furniture Assembly—20.8%

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 53.9 (#57), Grok 4.7: 51.2 (#108)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Non-English14301392
LMArena Chinese15111476
LMArena Russian14361396
LMArena French1455—
LMArena German1445—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1421—
LMArena Spanish1452—

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 75.4 (#64), Grok 4.7: 74.3 (#98)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Instruction Following14271406

Long Context GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.6 (#58), Grok 4.7: 43.2 (#97)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Longer Query14461416
CL-bench18.7%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

GLM-5: 66.2 (#38), Grok 4.7: 70.1 (#23)

BenchmarkGLM-5Grok 4.7
LMArena Text14461397
LMArena Creative Writing14381391
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16012007
LMArena Multi-Turn14561389

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5 better than Grok 4.7?

GLM-5 and Grok 4.7 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (45.9 vs 46.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5 or Grok 4.7?

GLM-5 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 lists at $2 and $6.

Is GLM-5 or Grok 4.7 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.0 versus 49.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.7 does, with 500K tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Grok 4.7 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.7 has 21.

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