GLM 4.5 Air Pricing - Cost Calculator

GLM-4.5-Air is Z.aiโ€™s compact open-weight reasoning model for coding, agents, tool use, long-context analysis, and cost-efficient AI applications.

GLM 4.5 Air is a chat model from Z.ai, released 26 July 2025. It pairs a 131,072-token context window with up to 98,304 tokens of output, taking text input and returning text. Training data ends 31 December 2024, and the model reasons step by step. It costs $0.20 per million input tokens through Z.ai.

Last updated Sep 30, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Jul 26, 2025
Knowledge Cutoff
Dec 31, 2024
Context Length
131,072
Max Output
98,304
Modalities
Text → Text
Capabilities
Tool use Prompt caching Open weights

Where is GLM 4.5 Air a perfect fit?

GLM-4.5-Air combines reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities in a 106-billion-parameter MoE model, offering thinking and non-thinking modes for complex and low-latency workloads. GLM-4.5-Air can be the right fit for below use-cases:
- Coding assistants โ€” code generation, debugging, and software development
- AI agents โ€” autonomous multi-step workflows
- Tool calling โ€” function and API orchestration
- Reasoning โ€” mathematics, science, and logical problems
- Research agents โ€” browsing and information retrieval
- Frontend development โ€” websites and interactive UI
- Long-context analysis โ€” large documents and codebases
- Cost-sensitive inference โ€” applications needing a smaller model than GLM-4.5

Quick Model Estimate

(USD 0.2000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 1.1000 per 1M tokens)

Your GLM 4.5 Air Cost Estimate

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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens

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Cost Breakdown

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Pricing

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Z.ai LogoZ.aiTextStandard$0.2000$1.1000$0.0300131,072 tokensโ†’

Benchmarks

Scores from standardized evaluations by Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Higher is better โ€” the indices summarize overall ability, while the detailed scores break down performance on individual benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis

Higher is better ยท benchmarked by Artificial Analysis
Detailed scores
GLM-4.5-Air
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Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence across reasoning, knowledge & math evals
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Coding Index
Coding ability across software-engineering evals
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Agentic Index
Tool use & multi-step agent task performance
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond 73.3%

Graduate-level questions in biology, chemistry & physics

Humanity's Last Exam 7%

Expert-level questions across many academic domains

IFBench 37.6%

Precise following of detailed instructions

ฯ„ยฒ-Bench Telecom 46.5%

Tool-using agent tasks in a telecom support setting

CritPt 0%

Unpublished physics research reasoning problems

AA-LCR 46.7%

Long-context reasoning across large inputs

Coding
Terminal-Bench Hard 20.5%

Complex command-line and terminal workflows

Knowledge
Omniscience Accuracy 16.3%

Breadth of factual knowledge across domains

Omniscience Non-Hallucination 7.1%

How reliably the model avoids fabricated answers

Design Arena

Elo rating by arena & category
Variant Arena Category Elo Win % Percentile Avg time (ms)
glm-4.5-air models 3d 1,141 54.1% 43 86,566
glm-4.5-air models codecategories 1,147 51.4% 34 121,133
glm-4.5-air models dataviz 1,197 58.5% 56 99,892
glm-4.5-air models gamedev 1,108 48.4% 29 117,390
glm-4.5-air models svg 1,080 50.8% 25 41,941
glm-4.5-air models uicomponent 1,131 54.4% 35 93,620
glm-4.5-air models website 1,154 51.3% 37 126,506

FAQs about GLM 4.5 Air

How much does GLM 4.5 Air cost per 1M tokens?

GLM 4.5 Air costs $0.20 per million input tokens, and $1.10 per million output tokens.

What does a typical workload cost with GLM 4.5 Air?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each โ€” 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total โ€” costs $0.95 with GLM 4.5 Air at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use GLM 4.5 Air?

GLM 4.5 Air is available through Z.ai, from $0.20 per million input tokens.

What is GLM 4.5 Air's context window?

GLM 4.5 Air has a context window of 131,072 tokens, and returns up to 98,304 tokens in a single response.

What input types does GLM 4.5 Air support?

GLM 4.5 Air accepts text input, and returns text.

What is GLM 4.5 Air's knowledge cutoff?

GLM 4.5 Air's training data runs to 31 December 2024. It has no built-in knowledge of events after that date.