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o1 vs GLM 4.5 Air

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 16 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

o1
OpenAI · profile
GLM 4.5 Air
Z.ai · profile
Results compared
16
Shared sources
3

o1 or GLM 4.5 Air? The short answer

  • GLM 4.5 Air is cheaper: $0.32 against $26.25 per million tokens, 82 times less.
  • o1 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 15.2 against 11.1.
  • On our business benchmarks, o1 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge, writing and sticking to the facts.

At a glance

o1GLM 4.5 Air
Price per million tokens$15.00 in · $60.00 out$0.14 in · $0.86 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$26.25$0.32
Cheapest host, blended–$0.31 (Novita, BF16)
Intelligence Index15.211.1
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window200,000 tokens131,072 tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Developer based inthe USChina

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among models available today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. The better rank is in green.

Use caseo1GLM 4.5 Air
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 126 of 195 136 of 195
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 74 of 187 103 of 187
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 86 of 153 133 of 153

Every shared result

BenchmarkMetrico1GLM 4.5 Air
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,3701,372
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3811,327
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4021,390
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4071,361
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4021,373
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,3981,341
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 15.211.1
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 74.7%73.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 7.0%7.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 70.3%37.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 65.0%46.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 12.9%20.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 62.6%46.5%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 24.0%10.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.360.33
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 61.047.0

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.

Quick answers

Is o1 better than GLM 4.5 Air?

It depends on the task. Among models available today, on our benchmarks and licensed sources, o1 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge, writing and sticking to the facts.

Which is cheaper, o1 or GLM 4.5 Air?

GLM 4.5 Air costs $0.32 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $26.25 for o1.

Run o1 and GLM 4.5 Air on your own prompt

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