The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·Anthropic vs Z.ai

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#17 of 61
80based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#198 of 316
40.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#301 of 340
$6.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $3.00 · Out $15.00
Cache hit price
#165 of 206
$0.30
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#55 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Z.ai
Quality
#26 of 61
68based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#111 of 316
66.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#168 of 340
$0.74
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.40 · Out $1.75
Cache hit price
#83 of 206
$0.080
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#193 of 345
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 80 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 68 — a 12-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 ahead on 3 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $6.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and $0.74 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is about 8.1× cheaper.

Throughput is 41 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 66 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, with time to first token at 1.6s and 2.1s. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 205k.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 12 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 80 based on 4 of 6 evaluations 68 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $6.00 $0.74
Output tok/s 41 66
Context window 1.00M 205k
Providers 4 9
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 80 68
Coding Index 71
Mathematics Index 86 83
Science Index 91 86
Agentic Index 71 35
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 83
MATH / AIME86 / 83
Terminal-Bench53 / 33

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads on 3 of 3, Z.ai: GLM 4.7 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,458 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,473 1,442
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $3.00 $0.40
Output $/1M $15.00 $1.75
Blended $/1M $6.00 $0.74
Cache read $/1M $0.300 $0.080
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 1.00M 205k
Max output tokens 128k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 41 66
Time to first token 1.6s 2.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

12 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
Google · first party $6.00 41 $1.00 147
Amazon Bedrock · first party $6.00 38
Anthropic · first party $6.00 37
Azure · first party $6.00 26
Cerebras $2.38 132
DeepInfra $0.74 49
Venice $1.07 49
AtlasCloud $0.85 47
StreamLake $0.80 37
Z.AI · first party $1.00 33
Phala $1.46 30
Novita $0.90 29

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →