Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6, released by Zhipu AI in September 2025, is a large language model with approximately 357 billion parameters from the GLM-4 family, featuring an expanded 200K token context window. It supports strong mathematical reasoning, coding, and agentic orchestration tasks. GLM-4.6 targets enterprise-ready open-source deployments under an MIT license, with availability through Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5-Coder family, trained on a curated corpus spanning 92 programming languages with emphasis on code generation, debugging, and fill-in-the-middle completion. Built on the Qwen2.5 architecture, it extends the base series' improvements in instruction-following and long-context handling to coding-specific tasks within a compact deployable footprint. It became popular for integration into IDE extensions, CI pipelines, and self-hosted code assistant tools.
10 months newer
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-11-12
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
GLM-4.6
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
GLM-4.6
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct