Model Comparison
GLM-5.3 Flash vs Grok 4.7
GLM-5.3 Flash (max) leads Grok 4.7 (medium) by 216 Elo, and their 95% ranges sit 119 Elo apart. Among 78 models, each ranked by its best configuration, GLM-5.3 Flash is #12 and Grok 4.7 is #22. Cost per script: $0.022 for GLM-5.3 Flash (max) and $0.215 for Grok 4.7 (medium).
Last updated , from board data generated at 01:13 UTC.
Picks and Verdict
PickGLM-5.3 Flash
GLM-5.3 Flash (max)
Pick GLM-5.3 Flash (max) when the draft has to read well out loud, since it leads Grok's best setting on Writing Craft & Clarity by 6.4 points at $0.022 a script.
PickGrok 4.7
Grok 4.7 (medium)
Pick Grok 4.7 (medium) when substance matters most and you'll polish the sentences yourself, since it leads GLM on substance by 3.4 points at $0.215 a script.
One GLM-5.3 Flash setting beats all three of Grok 4.7's, for a fraction of the price. GLM-5.3 Flash is the #12 model of 78 and Grok 4.7 the #22 model, each ranked by its best setting. Against that best setting, Grok 4.7 (medium), GLM-5.3 Flash (max) leads by 216 Elo with separate 95% ranges, costs $0.022 against $0.215, and finishes a minute sooner. GLM is 6.4 points ahead on Writing Craft & Clarity, which for me means a lot of sentence cleanup before a Grok draft reads well out loud. To be fair to Grok, it beats GLM on substance by about three points at every setting and writes better visual cues at high. Its extra thinking mostly buys length. Grok 4.7 (low) costs $0.064 and scores 68.8 on Length Adherence, and medium lifts that to 78.7 while its craft and hook scores slip, for 90 Elo and more than three times the cost. High costs more again and its range overlaps medium's, so the board can't separate those two. I'd run GLM, and reach for Grok only when substance matters more to me than the prose.
Disclosure: GLM-5.3 Flash comes from the same lab as one of the four judges, GLM 5.3 Flash. The other three sit outside its lab, so it is never scored by its own lab alone (how the panel works). The judge analysis measures how much each judge favors its own lab.
How to Read the Writing Score, Writing Elo and 95% Ranges
Writing Score and Writing Elo. The Writing Score (0 to 100) is the weighted average of the nine metric scores: seven from the judges, Length Adherence from code and the Slop Score half from each. The Writing Elo is a rating from pairwise comparisons: on each script, each configuration's average across its drafts is compared with every other configuration's, and gaps within the draft-to-draft variation count as draws. Elo rewards winning often, so the two can put configurations in a different order.
Elo ranges. Each 95% range shows how far a configuration's Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently. It comes from resampling every configuration's recorded draft scores on each reference script and ranking again. Comparing two separate ranges does not test the Elo gap between them: ranges far apart are strong evidence for the order, and overlapping ranges do not mean a tie. The reference scripts stay fixed, so the ranges say nothing about new scripts. The methodology page has the full description.
All Thinking Levels of Both Models
Every ranked configuration of GLM-5.3 Flash and Grok 4.7, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.
- Each row is one configuration: the model at one thinking level. The dot is its Writing Elo, a rating from pairwise comparisons of the scores on each script, and the bar is its 95% range: how far that Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently.
- When two bars overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations. Bars far apart are strong evidence for the order.
- The table under the chart lists the same configurations in the same order and adds the Writing Score (the 0 to 100 consensus of the judges and code), cost, time and configuration rank (the place among all configurations on the board).
Shaded rows are the configurations chosen for the metric comparison below.
| Configuration | Writing Elo | 95% Range | Writing Score | Cost / Script | Time / Script | Reasoning Tokens | Configuration Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | 2140 | 2093 to 2186 | 81.8 | $0.022 | 5.2 min | 37,224 | #23 |
| Grok 4.7 (medium) | 1924 | 1863 to 1974 | 79.6 | $0.215 | 6.2 min | 27,687 | #42 |
| Grok 4.7 (high) | 1897 | 1850 to 1939 | 79.6 | $0.305 | 9.6 min | 42,549 | #43 |
| Grok 4.7 (low) | 1834 | 1784 to 1890 | 79.0 | $0.064 | 1.7 min | 2,760 | #48 |
Cost is one script at the API list price of the route used, uncached and without judging. Time is the average for one accepted script, retries included.
Computed Findings Across Thinking Levels
Each finding is computed from the configurations above. Where two 95% ranges overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations.
- Best Configurations Head to Head. GLM-5.3 Flash (max) leads Grok 4.7 (medium) by 216 Elo, and their 95% ranges do not overlap (2093 to 2186 against 1863 to 1974), which is strong evidence for that order.
- Every GLM-5.3 Flash Configuration Ranks Higher. GLM-5.3 Flash (max), the only GLM-5.3 Flash configuration on the board, ranks above all three Grok 4.7 configurations, including Grok 4.7 (medium) at Elo 1924.
- Lowest to Highest Thinking Level. Grok 4.7 moves +63 Elo from low to high, at about 4.8 times the cost per script.
Two Chosen Configurations Compared
Pick one configuration of each model to compare their metric scores, consistency across drafts and per-script scores. Each menu starts on the model's best configuration.
Scores by Metric
GLM-5.3 Flash (max) scores higher on six of the nine metrics and Grok 4.7 (medium) on three. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Length Adherence does the most to put GLM-5.3 Flash (max) ahead, with a 18.4-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.
Consistency Across Drafts
| GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | Grok 4.7 (medium) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score spread across drafts (±) | 1.62 | 3.00 |
| Lowest script score | 80.3 Script 4 | 75.6 Script 10 |
| Highest script score | 83.8 Script 9 | 82.2 Script 2 |
| Range across scripts | 3.5 | 6.6 |
Spread is how much the Writing Score moves between a configuration's drafts, and lower is steadier. Green marks the better number in each row.
Scores by Script
Writing Score on each reference script. Gap is GLM-5.3 Flash (max) minus Grok 4.7 (medium), and the higher score is in bold.
| Script | GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | Grok 4.7 (medium) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script 1 opinion / warning explainer | 81.1 | 81.5 | -0.4 |
| Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer | 81.5 | 82.2 | -0.7 |
| Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion | 81.0 | 81.6 | -0.6 |
| Script 4 short explainer | 80.3 | 76.9 | +3.4 |
| Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer | 82.1 | 80.5 | +1.6 |
| Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story | 82.9 | 82.0 | +0.9 |
| Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study | 83.5 | 76.5 | +7.0 |
| Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation | 80.8 | 79.0 | +1.8 |
| Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis | 83.8 | 80.2 | +3.6 |
| Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation | 81.2 | 75.6 | +5.6 |
Scorecards and Thinking Pages
Each configuration name in the table above opens its own scorecard.
Compare With Another Model
Pick a second model. A pair with its own written match-up opens that page, and any other pair opens in the comparison tool.
Nearby Match-Ups by Best Writing Elo
Every configuration wrote five drafts for each of the same 10 briefs, from the same prompt. Generation was closed-book, with the prompt as the only source and no web search or other tools. Each judge scores every draft once: Claude Opus 5.5 at medium effort through the Claude Code subscription, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium reasoning through the Codex CLI, GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter, and Jev 1.13, a typed judge from TypeSafe that answers each metric as a multiple-choice question. The channel's finished script is their reference for the voice, and it gets no score on the board itself.
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