The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
gpt-5.5-pre-release vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·OpenAI vs Z.ai

gpt-5.5-pre-release vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

gpt-5.5-pre-release profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
gpt-5.5-pre-release — OpenAI
Quality
#1 of 61
98based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Z.ai
Quality
#26 of 61
68based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#109 of 316
66.2
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, gpt-5.5-pre-release scores 98 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 68 — a 30-point lead for gpt-5.5-pre-release. They share 2 published evaluations, with gpt-5.5-pre-release ahead on 2 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Z.ai: GLM 4.7 only, at $0.74 per 1M tokens blended.

gpt-5.5-pre-release is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 9 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 98 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 68 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.74
Output tok/s 66
Context window 205k
Providers 0 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.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 98 68
Mathematics Index 100 83
Science Index 99 86
Agentic Index 94 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 = gpt-5.5-pre-release · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 83
MATH / AIME100 / 83

Right-hand figures read gpt-5.5-pre-release / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. gpt-5.5-pre-release leads on 2 of 2, 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.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 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.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $0.40
Output $/1M $1.75
Blended $/1M $0.74
Cache read $/1M $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.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 205k
Max output tokens 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.

Metricgpt-5.5-pre-releaseZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 66
Time to first token 2.1s
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Providers

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

9 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider gpt-5.5-pre-release blendedgpt-5.5-pre-release tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
Cerebras $2.38 401
Google · first party $1.00 140
AtlasCloud $0.85 54
DeepInfra $0.74 49
Venice $1.07 46
StreamLake $0.80 41
Phala $1.46 31
Z.AI · first party $1.00 30
Novita $0.90 27

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

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