The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·DeepSeek vs Z.ai

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B — DeepSeek
Quality
#39 of 62
62based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#268 of 317
25.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#187 of 370
$0.80
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.80 · Out $0.80
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#368 of 375
8k
tokens (~13 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: R1 Distill Llama 70B scores 62 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 68 — a 6-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 4.7. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ahead on 0 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.80 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and $0.74 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, within 10% of each other.

Throughput is 25 tokens per second for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and 60 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, with time to first token at 0.8s and 3.1s. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8k tokens of context against 205k.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 9 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

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

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 62 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 68 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.80 $0.74
Output tok/s 25 60
Context window 8k 205k
Providers 1 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 62 68
Mathematics Index 71 83
Reasoning Index 59
Agentic Index 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: R1 Distill Llama 70B · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 83
Mock AIME 2024–2551 / 83

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B leads on 0 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 4.7 on 2.

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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: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $0.80 $0.40
Output $/1M $0.80 $1.75
Blended $/1M $0.80 $0.74
Cache read $/1M $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: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 8k 205k
Max output tokens 8k 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 25 60
Time to first token 0.8s 3.1s
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Providers

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

9 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B blendedDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
Novita $0.80 32 $0.90 21
Cerebras $2.38 310
Google · first party $1.00 122
DeepInfra $0.74 38
Phala $1.46 36
AtlasCloud $0.85 35
Venice $1.07 33
StreamLake $0.80 24
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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