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How much energy does GLM-4.7 use?

Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · released 2025-12-22

Complex prompt
19.1 Wh
≈ 35 m of driving
Everyday chat
0.820 Wh
Capability
83.3
Energy rank
107 of 134

What this figure is

Calculated  Calculated from a published parameter count. Every model on this site is calculated the same way, so the comparison holds even where the absolute value carries uncertainty. Our figures are good to roughly a factor of two to three, which is why we only ever state a difference of 5× or more.

Is there a better choice?

A lighter model that does the job
Alibaba · capability 84.8. It is more capable than GLM-4.7 and uses about 54× less energy per answer: 0.351 Wh against 19.1 Wh.

What Z.ai (Zhipu AI) publishes

Energy cannot be worked out without knowing how big a model is. Of the 6 models from Z.ai (Zhipu AI) that we track, 4 can be assessed at all — the rest publish too little for anyone outside the company to calculate anything.

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