Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air
Z-AI Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context131,072Tokens
API Cost / 1M$0.98Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
GLM-4.5-Air is the lightweight variant of our latest flagship model family, also purpose-built for agent-centric applications. Like GLM-4.5, it adopts the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture but with a more compact parameter size. GLM-4.5-Air also supports hybrid inference modes, offering a "thinking mode" for advanced reasoning and tool use, and a "non-thinking mode" for real-time interaction. Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.13 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.85 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
Evaluate Competitors
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