The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·DeepSeek vs Z.ai

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek
Quality
#6 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#184 of 317
43.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#150 of 370
$0.54
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $0.87
Cache hit price
#13 of 238
$0.004
per 1M tokens (−99%)
Context
#25 of 375
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Z.ai
Quality
#30 of 62
68based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#115 of 317
60.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#177 of 370
$0.74
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.40 · Out $1.75
Cache hit price
#102 of 238
$0.080
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#219 of 375
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 68 — a 25-point lead for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ahead on 2 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.54 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and $0.74 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is about 1.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 44 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and 60 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, with time to first token at 1.9s and 3.1s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 205k.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 23 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 5 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 68 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.54 $0.74
Output tok/s 44 60
Context window 1.05M 205k
Providers 19 9
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 93 68
Mathematics Index 97 83
Agentic Index 89 35
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 83
Mock AIME 2024–2597 / 83

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro leads on 2 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 4.7 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,450 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,457 1,442
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $0.43 $0.40
Output $/1M $0.87 $1.75
Blended $/1M $0.54 $0.74
Cache read $/1M $0.004 $0.080
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 1.05M 205k
Max output tokens 384k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 44 60
Time to first token 1.9s 3.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

23 hosts · 5 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 110
Parasail $2.17 65
Cloudflare $2.17 64
Novita $1.46 62 $0.90 21
Venice $2.06 55 $1.07 33
Fireworks $2.17 53
DeepInfra $1.62 51 $0.74 38
Alibaba · first party $2.01 50
GMICloud $0.85 48
Together $2.17 45
SiliconFlow $1.91 41
CoreWeave $2.17 40
DeepSeek · first party $0.54 40
Baidu · first party $0.78 38
StreamLake $0.84 38 $0.80 24
Wafer $1.50 28
AtlasCloud $2.10 25 $0.85 35
DigitalOcean $1.74 8
Ionstream $1.41 5
Cerebras $2.38 310
Google · first party $1.00 122
Phala $1.46 36
Z.AI · first party $1.00 21

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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