The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Microsoft: Phi 4 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·Microsoft vs Z.ai

Microsoft: Phi 4 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

Microsoft: Phi 4 profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
Microsoft: Phi 4 — Microsoft
Quality
#50 of 61
33based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#142 of 316
56.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#40 of 340
$0.09
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.07 · Out $0.14
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#334 of 345
16k
tokens (~25 pages)
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, Microsoft: Phi 4 scores 33 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 68 — a 35-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 4.7. They share 2 published evaluations, with Microsoft: Phi 4 ahead on 0 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.09 per 1M tokens for Microsoft: Phi 4 and $0.74 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Microsoft: Phi 4 is about 8.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 56 tokens per second for Microsoft: Phi 4 and 66 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, with time to first token at 0.2s and 2.1s. Microsoft: Phi 4 accepts 16k tokens of context against 205k.

Microsoft: Phi 4 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 9 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

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At a glance
MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 33 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 68 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.09 $0.74
Output tok/s 56 66
Context window 16k 205k
Providers 1 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.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 33 68
Mathematics Index 39 83
Science Index 53 86
Reasoning Index 47
Agentic Index 35
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Microsoft: Phi 4 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 83
MATH / AIME14 / 83

Right-hand figures read Microsoft: Phi 4 / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. Microsoft: Phi 4 leads on 0 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 4.7 on 2.

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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.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,217 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,256 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.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $0.07 $0.40
Output $/1M $0.14 $1.75
Blended $/1M $0.09 $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.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 16k 205k
Max output tokens 16k 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.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4Z.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 56 66
Time to first token 0.2s 2.1s
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Providers

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

9 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Microsoft: Phi 4 blendedMicrosoft: Phi 4 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
DeepInfra $0.09 70 $0.74 49
Cerebras $2.38 401
Google · first party $1.00 140
AtlasCloud $0.85 54
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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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →