Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.5
80
GLM-4.7
71
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.5 #7 · GLM-4.7 unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Agentic
+17.2 difference
Coding
+4.7 difference
Knowledge
+5.6 difference
Claude Opus 4.5
GLM-4.7
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46 t/s
82 t/s
1.01s
1.10s
200K
200K
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.7 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 80 to 71. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62.5 against 45.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 59.3% to 41%. GLM-4.7 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
GLM-4.7 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 80 to 71. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 59.3% and 41%.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.2 versus 60.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GLM-4.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 70.6 versus 65.9. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.5 versus 45.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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