GLM-4.5-Air vs K-Exaone

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

K-Exaone is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 29. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

K-Exaone's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 49.4 against 38.3.

K-Exaone is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-4.5-Air is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. K-Exaone gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GLM-4.5-Air.

Quick Verdict

Pick K-Exaone if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Coding

K-Exaone

GLM-4.5-Air

38.3

K-Exaone

49.4

38.3%
SWE-Rebench
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SWE-bench Verified
49.4%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

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Knowledge

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33%
SimpleQA
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Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-4.5-Air or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone is ahead overall, 49 to 29.

Which is better for coding, GLM-4.5-Air or K-Exaone?

K-Exaone has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 38.3. GLM-4.5-Air stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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