Head-to-Head Model Comparison

GLM-4.5 vs GLM-4.5-Air

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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Zhipu AI

GLM-4.5

Ragionamento a Pesi Aperti

GLM-4.5 di Zhipu AI è un modello di IA progettato per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, con finestra di contesto da 131K, velocità di 75 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 80/100 e tariffa di acc

Intelligence Index80 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

131.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

42%

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GLM-4.5-Air

Modello Leggero ed Economico

GLM-4.5-Air di Zhipu AI è un modello di IA progettato per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, con finestra di contesto da 131K, velocità di 120 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 74/100 e tariffa di

Intelligence Index74 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

131.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
GLM-4.5-Air is faster at 120 tok/s vs 75 tok/s.

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Feature	GLM-4.5	GLM-4.5-Air
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	80	74
Provider	Zhipu AI	Zhipu AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	131.1K tokens~197 A4 pages of text	131.1K tokens~197 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	8K	8K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	75 tok/s	120 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	42%	N/A
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	61%	52%

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Evaluations ongoing

Cost

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Speed

GLM-4.5-Air

+60% faster generation

Context

Tied

131.1K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

GLM-4.5GLM-4.5-Air

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

42%vsN/A

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

61%vs52%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

75%vs70%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1290ptsvs1255pts

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

75 tok/s vs120 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

GLM-4.50.55s

GLM-4.5-Air0.36s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

GLM-4.57.22s

GLM-4.5-Air4.53s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

GLM-4.5 Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

GLM-4.5-Air Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

These models cost the same under this workload — no savings either way.Break-even

GLM-4.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 131K con capacità massima di output fino a 8K token (SWE-bench Verified 42% · GPQA Diamond 61%)
Throughput elevato di 75 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 550 ms
Pesi aperti (130B MoE) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

GLM-4.5-Air · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 131K con capacità massima di output fino a 8K token (GPQA Diamond 52% · MMLU-Pro 70%)
Throughput elevato di 120 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 360 ms
Pesi aperti (30B MoE) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	GLM-4.5	GLM-4.5-Air
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.00
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	16K	12K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	6K	2K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	GLM-4.5	GLM-4.5-Air
Official API Model ID (SDK)	glm-4-5	glm-4-5-air
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2025-07	2025-07
Knowledge Cutoff	May 2025	May 2025
Architecture	Hybrid Reasoning Mixture-of-Experts Transformer	Lightweight Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Transformer
Parameters	130B MoE	30B MoE
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use / GUI Agent	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 81 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 280 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 19 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 65 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text	text
Output Modalities	text	text

GLM-4.5 vs GLM-4.5-Air: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, GLM-4.5 or GLM-4.5-Air?

GLM-4.5 is more intelligent. It scores 80 compared with 74 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

GLM-4.5-Air is faster, generating 120 tokens per second compared with 75 tokens per second.

Which model has lower latency?

GLM-4.5-Air has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.36s compared with 0.55s.

Verdetto

Sia GLM-4.5 (Ideale per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia GLM-4.5-Air (Ideale per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: GLM-4.5 guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, GLM-4.5-Air garantisce una generazione più rapida e GLM-4.5 offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, GLM-4.5 o GLM-4.5-Air?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale GLM-4.5. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra GLM-4.5 e GLM-4.5-Air?+

GLM-4.5 costa $0.00 / $0.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre GLM-4.5-Air costa $0.00 / $0.00. Nel costo combinato, GLM-4.5 risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

GLM-4.5 supporta 131.1K token di contesto contro 131.1K token di GLM-4.5-Air, mentre GLM-4.5-Air offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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GLM-4.5 vs GLM-4.5-Air

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5-Air

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

GLM-4.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

GLM-4.5-Air · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

GLM-4.5 vs GLM-4.5-Air: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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