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GLM 4.5 Air

by Z Ai

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)

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GLM 4.5 Air

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `z-ai/glm-4.5-air`.

  • openrouter · z-ai/glm-4.5-air Docs

OpenRouter id: z-ai/glm-4.5-air

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 11.1 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other): 1123 elo · #82
  • Design Arena codecategories (other): 1139 elo · #92
  • Design Arena dataviz (other): 1186 elo · #61
  • Design Arena gamedev (other): 1097 elo · #95

Notes

GLM 4.5 Air is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much GLM 4.5 Air is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
11.5B ▼29.5%
Requests, last 7 days
1.4M
Tool calls, last 7 days
430K
Intelligence score
11.1
People's vote
1384
Average cost per request
12.8¢
Price per million tokens
$0.13 in · $0.85 out
05B10B19 Sept: 788M tokens, 97.2K requests20 Sept: 954M tokens, 371K requests21 Sept: 1.7B tokens, 112K requests22 Sept: 1.6B tokens, 136K requests23 Sept: 1.5B tokens, 125K requests24 Sept: 1.3B tokens, 121K requests25 Sept: 1.2B tokens, 608K requests26 Sept: 753M tokens, 74.2K requests27 Sept: 716M tokens, 78.5K requests28 Sept: 1.4B tokens, 138K requests29 Sept: 1.4B tokens, 113K requests30 Sept: 1.5B tokens, 110K requests1 Oct: 1.5B tokens, 93.9K requests2 Oct: 2B tokens, 130K requests3 Oct: 837M tokens, 79.7K requests4 Oct: 760M tokens, 75.9K requests5 Oct: 2.2B tokens, 121K requests6 Oct: 2.1B tokens, 151K requests7 Oct: 2.1B tokens, 119K requests8 Oct: 2.1B tokens, 125K requests9 Oct: 2.1B tokens, 149K requests10 Oct: 733M tokens, 66.2K requests11 Oct: 596M tokens, 59.2K requests12 Oct: 2.5B tokens, 660K requests13 Oct: 2.9B tokens, 640K requests14 Oct: 5.5B tokens, 1.2M requests15 Oct: 3.6B tokens, 515K requests16 Oct: 1.7B tokens, 120K requests17 Oct: 576M tokens, 70.2K requests18 Oct: 356M tokens, 66.2K requests19 Oct: 2B tokens, 146K requests20 Oct: 1.3B tokens, 140K requests21 Oct: 1.9B tokens, 302K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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