GLM 4.5 Air (free) vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

GLM-4.5-Air is the lightweight version of our newest flagship model family, designed specifically for agent-focused applications. Like GLM-4.5, it uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, but with a smaller parameter footprint. GLM-4.5-Air also supports hybrid inference modes, including a "thinking mode" for deeper reasoning and tool usage, and a "non-thinking mode" for real-time interactions.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a streamlined reasoning model from the Gemini 2.5 family, designed for extremely low latency and cost-effectiveness. It delivers higher throughput, quicker token generation, and enhanced performance on standard benchmarks compared to previous Flash models.