BenchLeader

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GLM 5.2

Verdict
  • Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 64.1 vs 57.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, instruction following, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal.
  • GLM 5.2 (max) is stronger in reasoning.
  • GLM 5.2 (max) is 4.7× cheaper ($2.15 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
  • GLM 5.2 (max) streams 1.5× faster (75 vs 49 tokens per second).
MetricClaude Opus 4.7GLM 5.2 (max)
BenchLeader Index64.157.7
Agents & tools score68.456.9
Coding score64.763.8
Composite score73.6
Human preference score69.067.3
Instruction following score55.4
Knowledge score65.644.8
Long context score63.3
Maths score65.455.8
Multimodal score65.1
Reasoning score66.566.8
Blended price $/M$10.00$2.15
Output speed49 tok/s75 tok/s
Time to first answer16.4 s34.2 s
Context window1M1M
GPQA Diamond91.9%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–359.2%
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%
OTIS Mock AIME86.4%
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)78.7%
SimpleQA Verified34.2%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%
Terminal-Bench80.2%
SimpleBench61.7%
SciCode50.5%
WeirdML76.4%70.1%
FrontierCode38.5%
ProofBench35.0%
GSO-Bench44.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.3
LMArena Text14941472
LMArena Hard Prompts15191493
LMArena Coding15471510
LMArena WebDev15571592
LMArena Vision1317
LMArena Agent4.6
AA Intelligence Index40.7
IFBench58.6%
AA-LCR78.7%
MMMU-Pro78.8%
AA-Omniscience27.3
Terminal-Bench Hard51.5%
GPQA Diamond (AA)91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)42.3%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)88.6%
AIME (Vals)96.3%
LiveCodeBench85.1%
MMLU-Pro89.9%
LegalBench85.3%
CorpFin66.1%
TaxEval75.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)68.5%67.8%
SWE-bench (Vals)82.0%82.8%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)90.2%
Vals Index56.1
HiL-Bench41.7%
EQ-Bench 41311
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%

Data as of 2026-09-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs GLM 5.2: questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM 5.2?
Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 64.1 vs 57.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Opus 4.7 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-13, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM 5.2 for coding?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in coding (65 vs 64 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than GLM 5.2 for agentic tasks?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (68 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2 is cheaper: $2.15 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2 streams faster: 75 against 49 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens of context.