Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-R1 offers 3.9K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.5 Air. GLM-4.5 Air is $2.64 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5 Air is a lightweight variant from Zhipu AI's GLM-4 model family, designed for efficient deployments requiring lower inference cost while maintaining strong language understanding and generation capabilities. It targets cost-sensitive production workloads, API integrations, and applications where the full GLM-4.x series capacity exceeds requirements.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
GLM-4.5 Air
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
GLM-4.5 Air
DeepSeek-R1
GLM-4.5 Air
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GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI