# Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) vs GLM-5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) and GLM-5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-7-adaptive-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) leads overall 68.46 to 54.26.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 59.1 for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) and 37.6 for GLM-5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 77.3% and 31.1%.
- GLM-5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 68.46 | 54.26 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 36 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 59.1 (Supported · #22/117)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 37.6 (Estimated · #58/117)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 69.4% | 56.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| BrowseComp | 79.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 77.3% | 31.1% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 73.1% | 43.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 18.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 45.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 57.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.1% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.99% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #24/143)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.2 (Estimated · #64/143)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 87.6% | 77.8% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.3% | 55.1% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 69.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 53.6 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCR v2 128K-256K | 59.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 50.1 (#39/50)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 91% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 63.9 (Estimated · #29/169)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 47.1 (Estimated · #73/169)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 94.2% | 86% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| GPQA-D | 94.2% | 86.0% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| HLE | 54.7% | 50.4% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| HLE w/o tools | 46.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#32/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath (legacy) | 43.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 16.434% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 2.100% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) or GLM-5?

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) and GLM-5?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 59.1 for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) and 37.6 for GLM-5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) currently has 21 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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