Side-by-side comparison of GLM-4.5 (Zhipu AI · China) and Llama 3.3 70B (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-4.5 is rated conditional; Llama 3.3 70B is conditional. They part ways on licence: GLM-4.5 is "MIT", Llama 3.3 70B is "Llama community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional MoE flagship from Zhipu under MIT. Strong agentic and coding benchmarks. Same Chinese-origin alignment and geopolitical considerations as DeepSeek / Qwen. | Conditional Strong 70B model, near-flagship quality at smaller size. Same Llama community licence as Llama 4: 700M MAU cap, acceptable-use policy, 'Built with Llama' attribution required. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Yes | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | 15/100 |
| Speed | 44 tok/s | 97 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.84/M | $0.68/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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