Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 8.7% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5 Air was created as a lightweight variant of GLM-4.5, designed to provide strong bilingual capabilities with improved efficiency. Built to serve applications requiring practical deployment with reduced resource requirements, it extends GLM-4.5's multilingual strengths to resource-conscious scenarios.
9 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GLM-4.5-Air
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GLM-4.5-Air
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GLM-4.5-Air

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GLM-4.5-Air
GLM-4.5-Air