Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 43.7% 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 7B was created as an efficient variant in the Qwen2 family, designed to provide capable instruction-following with 7 billion parameters. Built to serve as a practical foundation for applications requiring reliable language understanding, it balances performance with deployment efficiency.
1 year newer

Qwen2 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

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

Qwen2 7B Instruct
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen2 7B Instruct