Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 39.3% higher average benchmark score. 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.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Mini was developed by Microsoft as a small language model designed to deliver impressive performance despite its compact size. Built with efficiency in mind, it demonstrates that capable language understanding and generation can be achieved with fewer parameters, making AI more accessible for edge and resource-constrained deployments.
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Microsoft
2024-08-23
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
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Available providers and their performance metrics
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Azure
GLM-4.5-Air

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