Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 35.2% 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 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
10 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B 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 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Together
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct