Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 23.6% 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 14B was developed as a mid-sized instruction-tuned model, designed to balance capability and efficiency for diverse language tasks. Built with 14 billion parameters, it provides strong performance for applications requiring reliable instruction-following without the resource demands of larger models.
10 months newer

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct