Model comparison
GLM-4.5 Air vs o3
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
GLM-4.5 Air
Not scored
value score
o3
93
value score
GLM-4.5 Air ctx
—
o3 ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- o393
Attribute tape
| Field | GLM-4.5 Air | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Z.ai | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $10/1M in · $40/1M out |
| Value score | — | 93 |
| Summary | GLM-4.5 Air is Z.ai's lightweight agentic foundation model featuring 106B total parameters and 12B active parameters, designed for reasoning, coding, tool use, and software agent applications. It offers hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes and is the efficiency-oriented variant within the GLM-4.5 family. | OpenAI reasoning model focused on hard problems. |