GLM-4.7-Flash vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

GLM-4.7-Flash

A small MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model with about 3B active parameters, for local agent and coding work with several tool calls per turn and optional thinking. It runs in Ollama at about 23 GB and in nearly every common runtime. The main risk is neglect, with no changes or replies since early February and no safety results.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

The largest dense Qwen3-VL cousin, for harder work on screenshots, documents, charts and video, needing about 25 GB from Alibaba's Q4_K_M GGUF with its vision file, in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0. It has no thinking mode or published safety work, and only one provider was found serving it, so plan to run it yourself.

GLM-4.7-Flash

1. On our reference machine start it with vllm serve zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash --max-model-len 65536 --tool-call-parser glm47 --reasoning-parser glm45 --enable-auto-tool-choice --served-model-name glm-4.7-flash
2. Or run ollama run glm-4.7-flash for the 19 GB q4_K_M build
3. Without the glm47 and glm45 parsers, tool calls and reasoning come back as plain text
4. Use a released vLLM (0.32.0 or later) or SGLang (0.5.22 or later); the card's nightly and pull-request builds date from January 2026
5. Pass chat_template_kwargs: {"enable_thinking": false} for short tasks, since thinking is on by default
6. Set clear_thinking: false to keep earlier reasoning in multi-turn agent work, as Z.ai does for τ²-Bench and Terminal Bench
7. Set the context length yourself, since config.json allows 202,752 tokens and tokenizer_config.json says 128,000

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

1. Start it with llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 32768, or ollama run qwen3-vl:32b-instruct
2. In Ollama the plain qwen3-vl:32b tag is the Thinking edition, so name 32b-instruct
3. With the GGUF, load the mmproj vision file too, or images won't be read
4. Parse tool calls as JSON inside <tool_call> tags, or use SGLang's --tool-call-parser qwen
5. Use the card's sampling, temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, presence_penalty=1.5 for vision and temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, top_k=40, presence_penalty=2.0 for text
6. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
7. vLLM needs 0.11.0 or later and Transformers 4.57.0 or later
8. If you pulled the FP8 build before 22 October 2025, pull it again, since the earlier files were the Thinking edition's