Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-5 is a large language model from Zhipu AI with 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters per inference, designed for agentic intelligence, advanced reasoning, and frontier-level performance. It features a 200K token context window and targets complex multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use. GLM-5 is available via Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform under an MIT license.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.
10 months newer

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GLM 5
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
GLM 5
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B