1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs GLM-4.5

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· GLM-4.5

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

GLM-4.5 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 41 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GLM-4.5's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 32.1 against 20.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 34.4% to 57%.

GLM-4.5 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A51 t/s
TTFTN/A1.45s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BGLM-4.5
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.028%
BrowseComp37%
OSWorld-Verified31%
Coding
HumanEval29%
SWE-bench Verified18%
LiveCodeBench13%
SWE-bench Pro15%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro36%
OfficeQA Pro47%
ReasoningGLM-4.5 wins
MuSR45.1%33%
BBH61%
LongBench v248%
MRCRv252%
KnowledgeGLM-4.5 wins
GPQA20.7%36%
MMLU37%
SuperGPQA34%
MMLU-Pro51%
HLE3%
FrontierScience40%
SimpleQA35%
Instruction FollowingGLM-4.5 wins
IFEval63%68%
Multilingual
MGSM60%
MMLU-ProX57%
MathematicsGLM-4.5 wins
MATH-50034.4%57%
AIME 202337%
AIME 202439%
AIME 202538%
HMMT Feb 202333%
HMMT Feb 202435%
HMMT Feb 202534%
BRUMO 202536%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 is ahead overall, 41 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 34.4% and 57%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.1 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.3 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GLM-4.5?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 68 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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