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GLM 4.5 Air: price, performance and context

Open GLM 4.5 Air by Z.ai costs $0.13 per 1M input and $0.85 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 11.1 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 148 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · z-ai/glm-4.5-air

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.13
Output / 1M tokens
$0.85
Context window
131.1K tokens
Max. output
98.3K tokens
Performance index
11.1 points · rank 148 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.343 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2024
In the catalog since
Jul 25, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0022,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0027,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00112,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0026,400
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.015680

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