Qwen3-32B vs GLM-4.5-Air
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-32B | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 32.8 B | 110.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Glm4MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 2 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,751,050 | 817,559 |
| Downloads all time | 60.6 M | 5.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-07-20 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | $0.13 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.28 | $0.85 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.36 | $0.98 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.025 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.3 | 11.1 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 98,304 |
| API providers | 3 | 3 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-32B
$0.36
GLM-4.5-Air
$0.98
Qwen3-32B is 2.7× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)
10.1 M184 K
Qwen3-32B
GLM-4.5-Air
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-32B · fp16
77.5 GB / 24 GB
GLM-4.5-Air · fp16 @ 128K ctx
508.7 GB / 24 GB