Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 18.6% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. 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.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the Granite base model, designed to follow instructions reliably in enterprise settings. Built to serve business applications requiring dependable language understanding, it provides IBM's accessible interface for enterprise AI.
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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct