Model comparison

GLM-4.5-Air vs phi-3-medium 14B

GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.5-Air leads 35.0 to 9.1.

Side by side

GLM-4.5-Air and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Microsoft
Noometry Index38.929.7
Released2025-07-202024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output98K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.20—
Output $ / M tokens$1.10—
Results tracked2713

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
GSO2.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1397—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1379—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.23
ForecastBench59.2—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
Omni-MATH39.1%—
LMArena Math1396—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam8.1%—
MMLU-Pro76.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—
LMArena Expert1370—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1366—
LMArena Chinese1426—
LMArena French1399—
LMArena German1377—
LMArena Japanese1348—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1386—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
IFEval81.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1354—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1366—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-Airphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1384—
LMArena Creative Writing1343—
WildBench78.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1371—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5-Air better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-4.5-Air or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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