GLM-4.7 vs Qwen3 Max vs Kimi K2 Thinking

It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 2 points (Kimi K2 Thinking 58/100, GLM-4.7 56/100, Qwen3 Max 50/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Kimi K2 Thinking for raw capability and GLM-4.7 on price. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

GLM-4.7 is cheaper at $0.60 input / $2.20 output per million tokens (official Z.AI API price). Kimi K2 Thinking costs $0.60 input / $2.50 output per million tokens (median across 10 API providers); Qwen3 Max costs $1.20 input / $6.00 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $1.00 per million tokens for GLM-4.7 versus $1.07 for Kimi K2 Thinking (1.1× as much) and $2.40 for Qwen3 Max (2.4× as much).

Kimi K2 Thinking scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Kimi K2 Thinking 146.0 (#72 of 148), GLM-4.7 143.5 (#84 of 148) and Qwen3 Max 142.4 (#91 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (143.4–147.6 vs 141.3–145.6), so treat the gap as small. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — Kimi K2 Thinking 84.2%, GLM-4.7 83.3%, Qwen3 Max 72.6%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — GLM-4.7 83.3%, Kimi K2 Thinking 83.1%, Qwen3 Max 73.3%.

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for GLM-4.7, Qwen3 Max and Kimi K2 Thinking yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Kimi K2 Thinking leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. All three support tool calling for agent workflows.

Qwen3 Max and Kimi K2 Thinking have the largest context windows (262,144 and 262,144 tokens), against 204,800 for GLM-4.7. Maximum output per response: GLM-4.7 up to 131,072, Qwen3 Max up to 65,536, Kimi K2 Thinking up to 262,144 tokens.

GLM-4.7 accepts text; Qwen3 Max accepts text; Kimi K2 Thinking accepts text. They handle the same number of input types.

GLM-4.7 and Kimi K2 Thinking publishes its weights and can be self-hosted; Qwen3 Max is proprietary.

GLM-4.7 is the newest, released Dec 22, 2025. Kimi K2 Thinking came out Nov 6, 2025; Qwen3 Max came out Sep 23, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: GLM-4.7 Apr 2025, Qwen3 Max Apr 2025, Kimi K2 Thinking Aug 2024.

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.