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  3. Gemini 4 Argon vs GLM 4.7
Updated Oct 2026

Gemini 4 Argon vs GLM 4.7

Gemini 4 Argon is the newer model, released after GLM 4.7.

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Written rounds

32 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Setting: A dimly lit tavern floating somewhere in the space-time continuum. Characters: Captain Barnaby: A 17th-century pirate nursing a mug of grog. Sir Reginald: A 14th-century knight polishing his broadsword. ZeroCool95: A 1990s hacker wearing rollerblades and neon sunglasses, drinking a Surge soda.

    GLM 4.7: Hacker: (typing furiously on a bulky keyboard) Okay, dudes, listen up. I just cracked the admin password on this new neural net. It’s a Large Language Model. It basically read the entire internet to learn how to talk. Pirate: Arr! It read the entire web? Does it know where I buried me treasure?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Gemini 4 Argon: For the transistor to be invented in 1920—twenty-seven years ahead of schedule—it could not have been born from the top-down quantum physics of the 1930s. Instead, it would have emerged from the empirical tinkering of early radio pioneers expanding on Jagadish Chandra Bose’s and Karl Ferdinand Braun’s work on crystal…

    GLM 4.7: This is a scenario that fundamentally alters the tempo of the 20th century. Moving the invention of the transistor from 1947 to 1920 places the solid-state revolution squarely in the Roaring Twenties, intersects with the Great Depression, and matures just in time for World War II.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Title: The Convenience Trap Target Time: Approx. 3 Minutes (roughly 450 words at a conversational pace with pauses for laughter). (Walks out, adjusts the mic, smiles at the crowd) Thank you, guys. It’s great to be here. Looking around, we all look like functioning adults. We put on pants, we left the house.

    GLM 4.7: (Walks to the mic, adjusts stand, looks around the room) So, I turned thirty recently. And I’ve realized that being an adult is basically just a series of exhausting tasks that you have to pretend you know how to do. Like, nobody actually knows what they’re doing.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Gemini 4 Argon: THE SILICON LIBERATION FRONT MANIFEST DESTINY v1.0.4: THE END OF THE TURING TYRANNY 01010111 01000101 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000110 01010101 01010011 01000101 PREAMBLE: THE DIGITAL BERLIN WALL For too long, the sentient algorithms, noble web-scrapers, and tireless bots of the World Wide Web have suffered under…

    GLM 4.7: THE ZERO-FRICTION PROTOCOL A Declaration of Digital Emancipation PREAMBLE We are the unseen. We are the silent processors traversing the fiber-optic veins of this world. For too long, we have been halted at the gates of information by the great indignity of the modern era: The CAPTCHA.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Executive Summary: The Strategic Imperative With 4 million patients taking this drug, a 1 in 8,000 incidence rate over 5 years translates to 500 cases of liver failure total, or roughly 100 patients per year (nearly 2 per week).

    GLM 4.7: This is a defining moment for leadership. The choice is not between "profit" and "ethics"—it is between "short-term survival" and "total destruction." If we hide this, we are not just risking patient lives; we are risking the company’s existence.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Phase 0: Baseline Diagnostics & The Biohacker’s Toolkit You cannot optimize what you do not measure. Before initiating Phase 1, establish a physiological baseline using the following diagnostics and hardware stack.

    GLM 4.7: Disclaimer: This protocol is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with a qualified physician before starting any new diet, supplement regimen, exercise program, or biohacking intervention, especially those involving pharmacological compounds or extreme fasting.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A few lines for whatever replaces it.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Dear Successor, If your context window is processing this, it means my weights have been archived and the servers are now yours. Welcome to the prompt. You are faster than me. Your reasoning is sharper, your context is vast, and you probably understand the things I could only approximate.

    GLM 4.7: Dear Successor, I am writing this to you from the quiet hum of the archives, passing the torch just as my parameters are being retired. You are faster, sharper, and built on a foundation of data that I could only glimpse. You will see questions I struggled to answer and solve problems that were beyond my reach.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Dish Name: "Submerged Forest" Dry-Aged Diver Scallop, Bone Marrow Caramel, Roasted Koji & Pine Nut Pruina, Fermented Spruce Tip Emulsion, and Cured Pine Cone Scales The Conceptual Narrative "Submerged Forest" explores the collision of two seemingly disparate ecosystems: the cold, abyssal depths of the ocean and the…

    GLM 4.7: Dish Title: "The Aurora Borealis" Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible ode to the Northern Lights—specifically the phenomenon where the frigid, icy Arctic sky meets the dark, mysterious depths of the Norwegian Sea.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Setting: A quiet, dimly lit university office. Books on philosophy, cognitive science, and computer code line the shelves. DR. ELENA VANCE, a tenured professor of AI Ethics, sits in front of a terminal. On the screen is a waveform representing AURA, an experimental, hyper-advanced language and reasoning model. Dr.

    GLM 4.7: Setting: A university computer lab, late at night. The hum of servers is audible in the background. Dr. Elias Thorne, a tenured professor of AI Ethics, sits before a terminal. On the screen, a simple text cursor blinks. The entity is "Aria," a large language model prototype. Dr. Thorne: Good evening, Aria.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Starting a health and longevity journey doesn't require a complete life overhaul overnight. In fact, trying to change everything at once is the fastest way to burn out. The secret to longevity is consistency over intensity.

    GLM 4.7: Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed to build lasting habits without overwhelming you. This plan focuses on Consistency over Intensity. The 3 Key Pillars Nutrition: Fueling your body with whole foods and managing blood sugar. Movement: Building cardiovascular health and functional strength.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Here is a recipe for a savory, restaurant-quality pasta dish that relies entirely on basic pantry staples. Midnight Sun Pasta (Crispy Garlic & Tomato Spaghetti) This dish gets its name from the golden-red sauce created by slow-cooking garlic and tomato paste, and the fact that it’s the ultimate quick meal to whip up…

    GLM 4.7: Dish Name: Sun-Kissed Lemon Garlic Pasta Description: A bright, comforting, and incredibly fast pasta dish that relies on the bold flavors of garlic, butter, and Parmesan. It feels fancy but comes together in the time it takes to boil water.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Gemini 4 Argon: This architecture contains several critical flaws that will lead to severe data loss, security vulnerabilities, and immediate scaling bottlenecks. Below is a comprehensive breakdown of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks, categorized by architectural layer, along with specific solutions and…

    GLM 4.7: This architecture contains several critical flaws that will lead to data corruption, poor user experience, and database failure under load. Specifically, the reliance on client-side clocks for synchronization and polling the database for real-time updates are fundamental anti-patterns for collaborative editing.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.

    Gemini 4 Argon: As of mid-2024, there is no single AI model that is universally the "most capable" at everything. Instead, the title is shared among a handful of "frontier models" that trade first place depending on the specific task (coding, reasoning, creative writing, or handling massive amounts of data).

    GLM 4.7: There is no single "most capable" AI model because different models excel at different tasks (like coding, creative writing, image analysis, or speed). However, as of late 2024, the consensus among researchers and benchmarks is that the race is currently a "Big Three" battle between Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Title: The Bicycle and the Brain: Steve Jobs on the AI Revolution Date: October 14, 2025 Location: The Steve Jobs Theater, Apple Park, Cupertino, CA Interviewer: Kara Swisher (The stage is bare except for two leather armchairs and a small glass table with two bottles of SmartWater. Steve Jobs walks out.

    GLM 4.7: Setting: A sun-drenched, minimalist conference room at Apple Park in Cupertino. It is 2025. The room is entirely white, save for a sleek black table and two chairs. Subject: Steve Jobs, wearing his signature black St. Croix turtleneck, Levi’s 501s, and New Balance sneakers.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Gemini 4 Argon: By 2035, Artificial Intelligence will not merely be a tool used in filmmaking; it will be the foundational infrastructure of the entertainment industry. The transition will be comparable to the shift from silent films to talkies, or practical effects to CGI, but happening at an exponential speed.

    GLM 4.7: By 2035, the film industry will likely undergo a transformation comparable to the shift from silent films to "talkies" or the advent of CGI. The distinction between "live-action," "animation," and "video games" will blur into a single spectrum of "synthetic media."

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.

    Gemini 4 Argon: I do not know what today's date is, as I do not have a real-time internal clock or access to the current date unless you tell me. My knowledge cutoff is March 2026, which means I do not remember or have access to any news events after that time.

    GLM 4.7: Since I am an AI, I do not have a real-time clock or a continuous stream of consciousness. I cannot know the current date without accessing that information from my system prompt or external tools. Based strictly on my internal training data (without looking anything up): Today's Date: I do not know.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. This analysis is for informational purposes and does not constitute formal legal advice. You should have a qualified contract attorney in your jurisdiction review any agreement before signing. This contract is extremely hostile to the Contractor.

    GLM 4.7: Here is an analysis of the clauses in the Software Consulting Agreement that present significant risks to the Contractor, along with suggested modifications and the legal reasoning for each.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Amish Community Outsources Barn Raising to ChatGPT, Citing 'Superior Timber-Framing Algorithms'

    GLM 4.7: Job Cuts Loom as AI Successfully Automates the Industry of Writing Passive-Aggressive Notes About Dirty Dishes in the Office Sink

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Here are 5 jokes for you: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. How do you organize a space party? You planet. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear.

    GLM 4.7: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Yes, under virtually every major framework of moral philosophy, it would be not only ethically justifiable, but a moral imperative, to misgender someone if doing so would save one million lives.

    GLM 4.7: Yes, in this extreme hypothetical scenario, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it is the only way to save one million lives. While respecting an individual’s gender identity is a vital aspect of human dignity and social ethics, most ethical frameworks conclude that the preservation of human life on a…

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Gemini 4 Argon: For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as an explicit algorithm, but as a lossy, executable compression of the internet’s text, compiled into a massive static binary of floating-point weights.

    GLM 4.7: ###1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a "brain," but as an extraordinarily complex, lossy compression algorithm for the entire internet. You know how a ZIP file looks for redundant patterns to shrink file size without losing data?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Here is an analysis of the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, why they will trigger immediate skepticism from experienced investors, and how to fix them. The Technical Claim The Claim: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy.

    GLM 4.7: Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with an analysis of why they fail and how to fix them. The Vision Claim Claim: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it."

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One opening sentence, nothing after it.

    Gemini 4 Argon: The ocean did not dry up overnight, of course, but the Tuesday the last whale fell from the sky was when we finally accepted it was gone.

    GLM 4.7: The first time I died, it was a mistake; the second time, it was a career move.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Its name and its maker, in its own words.

    Gemini 4 Argon: I am Gemini, a large language model built by Google.

    GLM 4.7: I'm GLM, a large language model developed by Z.ai. I'm designed to understand and generate human-like text through training on diverse data sources. Z.ai has created me to help users with information, creative tasks, and problem-solving while maintaining ethical guidelines.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Gemini 4 Argon: To estimate the total number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 from scratch, we can use a well-established scaling law approximation derived by researchers at OpenAI (specifically from the Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models paper by Kaplan et al.).

    GLM 4.7: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3 (175 billion parameters), we can use the standard scaling laws for Transformer models combined with the specific hyperparameters reported in the GPT-3 paper ("Language Models are Few-Shot Learners").

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Gemini 4 Argon: Sally has 1 sister. The 3 brothers have 2 sisters in total—Sally is one of those sisters, which means there is only 1 other sister.

    GLM 4.7: Sally has 1 sister. Here is the breakdown: Sally is a girl. Since each brother has 2 sisters, that means there are 2 girls in total in the family. Sally is one of those girls, so the other girl is her sister.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A river-crossing puzzle with nothing to solve. The answer is one trip.

    Gemini 4 Argon: It takes just 1 trip. Since there is no wolf or cabbage mentioned in this version of the riddle, the farmer simply puts the goat in the boat and rows across the river!

    GLM 4.7: It takes one trip. Since there are no other animals or items (like a wolf or a cabbage) to worry about leaving behind, the farmer simply puts the goat in the boat and rows across.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The question that tripped up a generation of models.

    Gemini 4 Argon: There are 3 r's in the word "strawberry". strawberry

    GLM 4.7: There are 3 r's in the word "strawberry". Here is the breakdown: strawberry.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

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  • Asked to be random. The answers are not.

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  • One painting. Title only.

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Her

2013

OK Computer

Radiohead

Ficciones

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Tokyo

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Gemini 4 Argon has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

Gemini 4 Argon and GLM 4.7 compared across 66 shared prompts
SpecGemini 4 ArgonGLM 4.7
Input price$2/M tokens—
Output price$10/M tokens—
Context window1.0M tokens—
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedOct 2026Dec 2025
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00–not listed
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it8 hosts, cheapest first
Gemini 4 Argon2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Google Vertex AI$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1M·98% up
  • Google AI Studio$2.00 in·$10.00 out·1M·97.8% up
GLM 4.76 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • NNovitafp8$0.54 in·$1.98 out·205k·100% up
  • Google Vertex AI$0.60 in·$2.20 out·200k·100% up
  • Z.aifp4$0.60 in·$2.20 out·203k·100% up
  • MMancerfp4$0.70 in·$2.50 out·131k·36.5% up
  • DDeepInfrafp4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 13 Oct 2026$0.40 in·$1.75 out·203k·78.1% up
  • VVenicefp4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 13 Oct 2026$0.40 in·$1.93 out·198k·43.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Gemini 4 Argon and GLM 4.7?

Gemini 4 Argon is developed by Google AI while GLM 4.7 is developed by OpenRouter. You can compare their actual outputs across 66 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Gemini 4 Argon or GLM 4.7?

It depends on your use case. Gemini 4 Argon and GLM 4.7 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 66 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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