In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- GLM-5.3 is cheaper per output token: $4.40 against $6 per million tokens, so Grok 4.7 costs 1.4 times as much.
- GLM-5.3 reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 500K.
- GLM-5.3 can be downloaded and run on your own machine; Grok 4.7 can't.
- On the 3 independent boards that rank both, GLM-5.3 places higher on 2 and Grok 4.7 on 1.
Side by side
The specs.
| GLM-5.3 | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · China | SpaceXSI (formerly xAI) · US |
| Released | Not stated | Sep 21, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $1.40 in / $4.40 out | $2 in / $6 out |
| Context window | 1M | 500K |
| Takes in | text | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (glm-5.3 (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) | No |
| Size | 753B (Hugging Face safetensors size field) parameters | Not published |
| Maker says | “GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's latest flagship model, delivering comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering” | “Grok 4.7 is our most capable model for coding and knowledge work.” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
Position on each board we follow (1 is best). Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown; the other boards are linked for their own figures.
| Board | GLM-5.3 | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI, Oct 20, 2026 | #30155.91 | Not listed |
| LMArena WebDevLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | Not listed | #18 |
| LMArena Agent ArenaLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | Not listed | #17 |
| Humanity's Last ExamScale AI | #15 | #13 |
| SWE-Bench ProScale AI, Sep 22, 2026 | #9 | Not listed |
| Vals IndexVals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | #9 | #11 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Vals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | #12 | #20 |
| Vibe Code BenchVals AI, Oct 18, 2026 | Not listed | #12 |
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