1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs GLM-4.5-Air

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-Air

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 39 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 45.1 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 45.1% to 31%. GLM-4.5-Air does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

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

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A106 t/s
TTFTN/A1.18s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BGLM-4.5-Air
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.028%
OSWorld-Verified28%
Coding
HumanEval27%
SWE-bench Verified15%
LiveCodeBench15%
SWE-bench Pro14%
SWE-Rebench38.3%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro36%
OfficeQA Pro44%
Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 1.7B wins
MuSR45.1%31%
BBH63%
LongBench v247%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeGLM-4.5-Air wins
GPQA20.7%34%
MMLU35%
SuperGPQA32%
MMLU-Pro51%
HLE4%
FrontierScience37%
SimpleQA33%
Instruction Following
IFEval63%
Multilingual
Coming soon
MathematicsGLM-4.5-Air wins
MATH-50034.4%
AIME 202335%
AIME 202437%
AIME 202536%
HMMT Feb 202331%
HMMT Feb 202433%
HMMT Feb 202532%
BRUMO 202534%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

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

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B is ahead overall, 39 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 45.1% and 31%.

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

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31 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-Air?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 35.1 versus 34.4. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

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

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.1 versus 44.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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