GLM 4.5 Air
· verified October 13, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index11.1 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2025-07-25
Context window131K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.13 / $0.85 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.13/$0.85 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed July 25, 2025
In one line
GLM 4.5 Air by Z.ai, measured by Artificial Analysis at 11.1 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “GLM-4.5-Air is the lightweight variant of our latest flagship model family, also purpose-built for agent-centric applications.”
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