Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 24.2% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 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 70B was created as a balanced open-source model, designed to provide strong performance with 70 billion parameters while remaining practical for many deployment scenarios. Built to serve as a versatile foundation for fine-tuning and application development, it combines capability with accessibility in the open-source ecosystem.
1 year newer

Llama 3.1 70B 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 70B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Bedrock
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together