claude-opus-4-8-thinking vs glm-4.7 Benchmark Comparison

Direct benchmark comparison between claude-opus-4-8-thinking and glm-4.7 based on LMArena Elo and the latest 2026 API pricing.

Direct Technical & Pricing Comparison

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
claude-opus-4-8-thinking	1482	$0.000005	41
glm-4.7	1443	$4e-7	35

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*

Comparison Summary: claude-opus-4-8-thinking is the more capable model in this pair, leading by 39 Elo points.