Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 17.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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