Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 44.2% higher average benchmark score. GPT-3.5 Turbo is available on 2 providers. Overall, GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
2 years newer

GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

GPT-3.5 Turbo
Azure
GLM-4.5-Air

GPT-3.5 Turbo
GLM-4.5-Air

GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI