ChatGLM4 vs ChatGPT4o

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1. Effectiveness

The overall effect of these two is almost on par, and GLM4 also supports multimodal input and output like GPT4o, but multimodal capability of GLM4 are inferior to GPT4o. GLM4 performs slightly better in a Chinese environment, with GLM4’s performance when asked questions in Chinese being slightly superior to GPT4o’s. When asked questions in English, GLM4’s performance is not as good as GPT4’s, but the difference is not significant. If we define the effectiveness score of GPT4o when asked questions in English as 5, then:

2. Political correctness: GLM4 relies on China’s political correctness, while GPT4o relies on Western political correctness.

3. Price and Token Count:

The price is calculated based on the exchange rate of 1 US Dollar to 7.24 Chinese Yuan.
Overall, GLM is slightly more expensive than GPT. Below is the various GLM models in detail.
GLM-4-0520 is the best GLM4 model.
GLM-4-Air has better performance than GPT3.5-turbo but is slightly slower.
GLM-4-Airx has the same effect as GLM-4-Air but is 2.6 times faster, about the same speed as GPT3.5-turbo.
GLM-4-Flash is only suitable for simple tasks.

4. Ecosystem:
   The ecosystem of GLM4 is far inferior to that of GPT. As of (2024-6), langchain only supports up to GLM3, not to mention frameworks like CrewAI for Multi-Agent Systems.

5. Open Source:
   Neither is open-sourced, but GLM3 is open-sourced.