GLM-4.7 vs Seed 1.6 Flash

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

GLM-4.7 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.7's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 46.6 against 27.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 86 to 64. Seed 1.6 Flash does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed 1.6 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for GLM-4.7.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed 1.6 Flash only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

66.1

Seed 1.6 Flash

54.5

67
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
72
BrowseComp
62
61
OSWorld-Verified
52

Coding

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

46.6

Seed 1.6 Flash

27.6

78
HumanEval
59
43
SWE-bench Verified
24
43
LiveCodeBench
25
51
SWE-bench Pro
31

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6 Flash

GLM-4.7

70.5

Seed 1.6 Flash

73.1

66
MMMU-Pro
74
76
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

80.2

Seed 1.6 Flash

66.8

82
SimpleQA
61
80
MuSR
59
84
BBH
75
79
LongBench v2
70
78
MRCRv2
74

Knowledge

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

61.8

Seed 1.6 Flash

47.3

86
MMLU
65
84
GPQA
64
82
SuperGPQA
62
80
OpenBookQA
60
74
MMLU-Pro
65
16
HLE
3
72
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

85

Seed 1.6 Flash

81

85
IFEval
81

Multilingual

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

79.1

Seed 1.6 Flash

72.8

81
MGSM
76
78
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

85

Seed 1.6 Flash

67.1

86
AIME 2023
64
88
AIME 2024
66
87
AIME 2025
65
82
HMMT Feb 2023
60
84
HMMT Feb 2024
62
83
HMMT Feb 2025
61
85
BRUMO 2025
63
85
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 is ahead overall, 67 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 86 and 64.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.8 versus 47.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 46.6 versus 27.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 67.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.2 versus 66.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.1 versus 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GLM-4.7 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 versus 72.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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