Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 12B
53
GLM-4.7
68
Pick GLM-4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.
Coding
+1.4 difference
Knowledge
+17.2 difference
Gemma 4 12B
GLM-4.7
N/A
$0 / $0
N/A
82 t/s
N/A
1.10s
256K
200K
Pick GLM-4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.
GLM-4.7 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 68 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for GLM-4.7.
GLM-4.7 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 68 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 72% and 84.9%.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 60.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 70.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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