Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5 Air is a lightweight variant from Zhipu AI's GLM-4 model family, designed for efficient deployments requiring lower inference cost while maintaining strong language understanding and generation capabilities. It targets cost-sensitive production workloads, API integrations, and applications where the full GLM-4.x series capacity exceeds requirements.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.
3 months newer

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GLM-4.5 Air
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GLM-4.5 Air
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B