Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 16.2% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 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.
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
1 year newer

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Bedrock
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Replicate
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