Side-by-side comparison of GLM-4.5 (Zhipu AI · China) and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-4.5 is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B is conditional. They part ways on licence: GLM-4.5 is "MIT", Llama 3.1 Nemotron 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 NVIDIA's Llama 3.1 fine-tune with custom RLHF. Inherits Llama 3.1 Community License terms. Strong conversational quality; useful default when you want Llama behaviour with NVIDIA's alignment. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Yes | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Partial |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | 13/100 |
| Speed | 44 tok/s | 42 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.84/M | $1.20/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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