Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 12.5% higher average benchmark score. Grok-2 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.
xAI
Grok 2 was developed as the second generation of xAI's language model family, designed to provide enhanced reasoning, knowledge, and conversational abilities. Built with architectural improvements and expanded training, it represents a significant advancement in xAI's model capabilities.
11 months newer

Grok-2
xAI
2024-08-13
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Grok-2
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Grok-2
xAI
GLM-4.5-Air

Grok-2
GLM-4.5-Air

Grok-2