Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.5-Air leads with 19.3% higher average benchmark score. QwQ-32B-Preview 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
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
8 months newer

QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28
GLM-4.5-Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks
GLM-4.5-Air

QwQ-32B-Preview
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5-Air

QwQ-32B-Preview
DeepInfra
GLM-4.5-Air

QwQ-32B-Preview
GLM-4.5-Air

QwQ-32B-Preview
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