Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 24.8% 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
Qwen2 72B was developed as the flagship model in the Qwen2 generation, designed to provide advanced language understanding with 72 billion parameters. Built to deliver strong performance across diverse tasks, it represented a significant advancement in Qwen's model capabilities when introduced.
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Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

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

Qwen2 72B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2 72B Instruct