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GLM 4.5 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 4.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·GLM 4.5
Hype vs Reality
GLM 4.5
#22 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
#98 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.3x better value than GLM 4.5
GLM 4.5
49.4 pts/$
$1.40/M
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
64.0 pts/$
$0.83/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
GLM 4.5Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 4.5 leads by +140.7
GLM 4.5
1411.3
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
1270.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 4.5Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1411.31270.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 4.5$0.60$2.20131K tokens (~66 books)$10.00
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$0.66$1.0033K tokens (~16 books)$7.45