GLM-5.3 (Max) vs Grok 4.7 (High)

Which is better for the money: GLM-5.3 (Max) by Z AI or Grok 4.7 (High) by SpaceXAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

Z AIGLM-5.3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 44.80
Total cost: $2503

SpaceXAIGrok 4.7 (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 46.30
Total cost: $3881

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Grok 4.7 (High) scores 1.5 points higher (46.3 vs 44.8) but costs 1.6× as much to run the benchmark ($3881 vs $2503; both flagship class). Pick Grok 4.7 (High) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise GLM-5.3 (Max).

Metric	GLM-5.3 (Max)	Grok 4.7 (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	44.8	46.3	+3.3% Grok 4.7 (High) is 3.3% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,503.48	$3,880.88	+55.0% Grok 4.7 (High) is 55.0% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	31.61s	25.34s	−19.8% Grok 4.7 (High) is 19.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.40 / $4.40	$2.00 / $6.00
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Grok 4.7 (High) vs GLM-5.3 (Max): 3.3% more intelligence, 55.0% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 19.8% faster end-to-end.

Open this matchup in the interactive picker GLM-5.3 (Max): what beats it Grok 4.7 (High): what beats it

Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GLM-5.3 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.
Grok 4.7 (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.

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