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Benchmark suiteLatest source data: Jun 10, 2026Checked: June 14, 2026

GLM 4.5 Air.

A model-level benchmark profile for GLM 4.5 Air, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Z.ai lab page

Lab

Z.ai

Open weights

Coverage

44%

4 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#149

Text Arena

Best suite

#31

Value / 77

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

GLM 4.5 Air is strongest on value.

44% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #31 in the value view, with a 77 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Text Arena at rank #149 with 31,075 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#31 / 77 value index

Strongest raw signal

Text

#149, 1373 score

Commercial posture

$0.372

1.57s first token / 84 tok/s

Coverage gaps

WebDev ArenaVision ArenaSearch ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

4 of 9 signals matched

44%

Arena categories

1/5

Text

Commercial match

Live

GLM-4.5-Air

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

glm-4.5-air

Open weights

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,373#149

1369-1377 CI

31,075 votes

Jun 10, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Vision Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$0.372

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.170

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$0.980

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

1.57s

Median time to first token

Output speed

84 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

GLM-4.5-Air

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#3177

value index

blended / 1M tokens$0.372
time to first token1.57s
output speed84 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#1115

coding index

Code ArenaNot listed
No confident matchNot listed
output speed84 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#3199

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency1.57s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#11074

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #1491,373
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision ArenaNot listed

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#14174

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #1491,373

Lab context

Nearby Z.ai profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

GLM 5.1

glm-5.1

Open weights

Best rank

#9

Coverage

56%

GLM 4.7

glm-4.7

Open weights

Best rank

#26

Coverage

56%

GLM 5v Turbo

glm-5v-turbo

Proprietary

Best rank

#29

Coverage

22%

GLM 5

glm-5

Open weights

Best rank

#31

Coverage

67%

GLM 4.6

glm-4.6

Open weights

Best rank

#58

Coverage

67%

GLM 4.6v

glm-4.6v

Open weights

Best rank

#74

Coverage

56%

GLM 4.5v

glm-4.5v

Open weights

Best rank

#82

Coverage

56%

GLM 4.5

glm-4.5

Open weights

Best rank

#106

Coverage

56%