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title: "Cheaper alternatives to GLM 4.7 · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/alternatives/z-ai__glm-4.7/
description: "7 models score at least as high as GLM 4.7 and cost no more on a balanced workload. 2 give up nothing measurable; the other 5 name what they drop. Measured prices and independent scores."
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# Cheaper alternatives to GLM 4.7 · Undominated.ai

> 7 models score at least as high as GLM 4.7 and cost no more on a balanced workload. 2 give up nothing measurable; the other 5 name what they drop. Measured prices and independent scores.

# Cheaper alternatives to GLM 4.7

Z.ai · LMArena 1435.3 · $0.738/M on a balanced workload · prices as of 2026-08-28

## 2 models are both better and cheaper, giving up nothing.

Of the 133 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, **7** score at least as high as GLM 4.7 and cost no more under at least one workload. **2** match or beat it on every capability we hold — context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. **5** do not, and every row names what it drops.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built from that comparison and nothing else. When no model is both better and cheaper than GLM 4.7, it is not generated.

## Where it holds

| Workload | GLM 4.7 $/M | Better and cheaper | With a trade |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Balanced | $0.738 | 2 | 3 |
| Summarise | $0.376 | 2 | 4 |
| Chat | $0.844 | 2 | 2 |
| Code gen | $1.18 | 2 | 2 |
| Agentic | $0.412 | 2 | 3 |

Workload mixes are defined on the [methodology page](/methodology/). Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

## What you would be replacing

| Intelligence | 1435.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 205K |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Extended reasoning | yes |

A replacement has to clear every line above, not just the score. [Full record for GLM 4.7](/models/z-ai__glm-4.7/).

## Better and cheaper, nothing given up 2

Each of these matches or beats GLM 4.7 on context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and reasoning, scores at least as high, and costs no more.

| # | Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi | 1465 +29.7 | $0.544 | Balanced −26% Summarise −11% Chat −43% Code gen −44% Agentic −41% |
| 2 | Qwen3.7 Plus Qwen | 1456.2 +20.9 | $0.560 | Balanced −24% Summarise −22% Chat −26% Code gen −26% Agentic −24% |

## Cheaper and higher-scoring, but you give something up 5

These score at least as high and cost no more on the two plotted axes, and lose something that is not on them. Read the last column before switching.

| Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under | What you give up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemma 4 31B Google | 1441.7 tie | $0.152 | Balanced −79% Summarise −76% Chat −79% Code gen −80% Agentic −75% | 131K → 16K max output |
| Hy3 Tencent | 1441.2 tie | $0.144 | Balanced −80% Summarise −79% Chat −81% Code gen −81% Agentic −80% | 131K → 128K max output |
| Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen | 1436.8 tie | $0.731 | Balanced −1% | 131K → 66K max output |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | 1490.2 +54.9 | $0.354 summarise | Summarise −6% Agentic −3% | 131K → 66K max output |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google | 1436.5 tie | $0.333 summarise | Summarise −12% | 131K → 66K max output |

## What this compares, and what it leaves out

 - Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.68 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked *tie* rather than an improvement — see [significance bands](/significance/).
 - 188 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
 - Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
 - Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
 - The models that nothing beats on both axes are on the [value frontier](/frontier/), and every other model something cheaper beats is [listed here](/alternatives/).