Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 8.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 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
Qwen3 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen3 30B A3B
GLM-4.5-Air

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita