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...
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Measured against all 412 chat models CoreAI serves, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air sits at #294 for context capacity — 131K tokens, roughly 98,304 words or 197 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #82 cheapest of 134 budget-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2025-07-25. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode).
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00055 on Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.011. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air handles 131K tokens of context — roughly 98,304 words, or about 197 pages of text in one conversation.
Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air's underlying rates are $0.13 per 1M input tokens and $0.85 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
No — Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air is text-only. If you need image understanding, its budget-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.
Yes. Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch), IBM: Granite 4.2 8B, IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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