Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM 5 offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1 is $0.62 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-5 is a large language model from Zhipu AI with 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters per inference, designed for agentic intelligence, advanced reasoning, and frontier-level performance. It features a 200K token context window and targets complex multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use. GLM-5 is available via Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform under an MIT license.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
GLM 5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
GLM 5
DeepSeek-R1
GLM 5
DeepSeek-R1
GLM 5
Zhipu AI