Which is better for coding — GLM-4.5 or Qwen3 235B A22B?

Direct comparison on the SWE-Bench benchmark is not available. We recommend reviewing other metrics on the comparison page.

Which model is cheaper — GLM-4.5 or Qwen3 235B A22B?

Qwen3 235B A22B is cheaper for input: $0.20 per 1M tokens vs $0.60.

Which has a larger context window — GLM-4.5 or Qwen3 235B A22B?

GLM-4.5 supports a larger context: 131,072 tokens vs 128,000.

GLM-4.5 vs Qwen3 235B A22B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison

Characteristic	GLM-4.5	Qwen3 235B A22B
Company	Zhipu AI	Alibaba
Release Date	July 27, 2025	April 28, 2025
Parameters	355B	235B
Multimodal	No	No
Context (input)	131K	128K
Context (output)	98K	128K
Input Price / 1M	$0.60	$0.20
Output Price / 1M	$2.20	$0.60
Average Score	0.8	0.9

Verdict

GLM-4.5 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.

Overall Performance

Both models show comparable average scores: GLM-4.5 — 0.8, Qwen3 235B A22B — 0.9.

API Cost

Qwen3 235B A22B is 3.5x cheaper: input $0.20/1M vs $0.60/1M tokens.

Context Window

GLM-4.5 supports a larger context: 131K vs 128K tokens.

Recency

GLM-4.5 is newer: released 7/27/2025 vs 4/28/2025.

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GLM-4.5

Zhipu AI — specs, benchmarks, API

Qwen3 235B A22B

Alibaba — specs, benchmarks, API

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