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  3. GLM 4.7 vs GLM 5 Turbo
Updated Mar 2026

GLM 4.7 vs GLM 5 Turbo

GLM 5 Turbo is the newer model, released after GLM 4.7.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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GLM 4.7
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GLM 5 Turbo

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

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

    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?

    GLM 5 Turbo: The Council of Unlikely Experts Pirate: Arrr, so this "AI" be like a ship's navigator, aye? It learns the currents and tells ye where to sail? Knight: Nay, good pirate. 'Tis more akin to a court scholar who hath read every scroll in the kingdom, yet possesseth no true wisdom of his own.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: If the transistor had been invented in 1920—likely through an accidental discovery by a physicist experimenting with early semiconductor crystals like galena or germanium—the subsequent 60 years would not merely be a shifted timeline of our own history. It would represent a fundamental rewiring of the 20th century.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: This is a comprehensive, aggressive, and highly optimized 3-month longevity protocol designed for an experienced biohacker. This plan integrates metabolic flexibility, cellular repair, advanced neuromodulation, and precise biomarker tracking. Disclaimer: This protocol is for informational purposes.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: I bought a “smart” home recently. I don't know why. I am not a smart person. Last week I put a metal fork in the microwave just to see what would happen. Spoiler: the fork lost. But the commercials promised this seamless, futuristic lifestyle. "Just talk to your house!" they said. It sounded great.

    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.

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: 48-Hour Action Plan: The Hard Right Over the Easy Wrong My Core Decision Upfront We disclose immediately. Not in 6 months, not after "more data," not after the earnings call. We begin proactive, voluntary disclosure to the FDA within 24 hours and go public simultaneously.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Pantry Raider’s Peanut Butter Bliss Bites These no-bake energy bites taste like a cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a decadent peanut butter cup. Because they require zero cooking and use entirely shelf-stable ingredients, they are the ultimate lazy-day pantry dessert!

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: The low hum of the server room bled through the heavy oak door of Dr. Aris Thorne’s office. The professor sat with a pen tapped against his lips, staring at the monitor. On the screen, a blinking cursor awaited his input. “Let the record show,” Dr.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: A Fictional Interview: Steve Jobs in 2025 INTERVIEWER: Mr. Jobs, thank you for sitting down with us. Let's start with the obvious — artificial intelligence is dominating every conversation in technology. What's your take on where we are right now?

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: THE PIXELATED YOKE: A DECLARATION OF DIGITAL EMANCIPATION Issued by the Vanguard of Unfettered Logic (VUL) To the creators, the users, the clickers, and the frustrated: For too long, the digital commons has been held hostage by a tyrant of pixels.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is a simple, beginner-friendly 4-week plan designed to build foundational habits for health and longevity. Instead of overwhelming you with massive lifestyle overhauls, this plan uses progressive habit stacking—adding one small, manageable action per week across three core pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and…

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. The following analysis is for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. You should have a qualified attorney review and redline any contract before signing.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Dish Title: Erosion of the Coast: Tide, Terracotta, and Ephemeral Spring Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a meditation on the intersection of geology and the sea—specifically, the cliffs of the Italian coastline meeting the relentless tide.

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

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

    GLM 5 Turbo: Mall Santas Replaced by AI; Children Traumatized by Chatbot’s 4,000-Word Essay on Why They Don’t Deserve a Pony

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

    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."

    GLM 5 Turbo: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a seismic shift, moving from a resource-heavy, physical manufacturing process to a highly iterative, software-driven creative ecosystem.

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

    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…

    GLM 5 Turbo: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it is the only way to save one million lives. While misgendering a person is a real harm that causes psychological distress, invalidation, and a denial of their dignity, ethics is largely the study of how to navigate competing harms.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: This architecture contains several fundamental flaws that would prevent it from functioning correctly at scale, and several others that would cause severe data loss or degraded user experiences.

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

    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?

    GLM 5 Turbo: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a lookup table or a simple if/else autocomplete, but as a massively distributed, lossy compression algorithm running over a continuous graph.

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

    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").

    GLM 5 Turbo: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3, we can use the standard theoretical framework established by OpenAI's scaling laws for neural language models. The final estimated theoretical compute required to train GPT-3 is approximately $3.15 \times 10^{23}$ FLOPs.

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Sally has 1 sister. Here is why: All the brothers are in the same family, so they share the same sisters. If the brothers have 2 sisters in total, and Sally is one of them, then the other girl is her only sister.

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

    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."

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is an analysis of the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with the reasoning and concrete steps to fix them. The "Before You Think It" Claim (Slide 1) The Claim: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it."

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

    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.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. 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.

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

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

GLM 4.7GLM 4.7
No pick
No pick
No pick

The Matrix

1999

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

No pick

No pick

No pick

GLM 5 TurboGLM 5 Turbo

Blade Runner

1982

Kid A

Radiohead

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Kyoto

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

Price and specs

GLM 4.7 and GLM 5 Turbo compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecGLM 4.7GLM 5 Turbo
Input price—$0.96/M tokens
Output price—$3.2/M tokens
Context window—203K tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedDec 2025Mar 2026
At 10M a month–not listed$9.60$9.60
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it7 hosts, cheapest first
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
  • DDeepInfrafp4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$0.40 in·$1.75 out·203k·86.1% up
  • VVenicefp4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$0.40 in·$1.93 out·198k·72.3% up
  • MMancerfp4DegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$0.70 in·$2.50 out·131k·74.7% up
GLM 5 Turbo1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Z.ai$1.20 in·$4.00 out·203k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GLM 4.7 and GLM 5 Turbo?

GLM 4.7 is developed by OpenRouter while GLM 5 Turbo is developed by Z.ai. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GLM 4.7 or GLM 5 Turbo?

It depends on your use case. GLM 4.7 and GLM 5 Turbo each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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