Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 13.3% 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-4 Mini Reasoning was developed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the ultra-compact Phi-4 Mini architecture. Built to demonstrate that reasoning enhancements can be applied even to very small models, it brings analytical depth to resource-constrained environments.
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Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
Microsoft
2025-04-30
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
2025-02-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
GLM-4.5-Air

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning