GLM 4.5 Air (free) vs GPT-4.1 Mini (Free)

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.

A mid-sized GPT-4.1 model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. Retains a 1 million token context window and demonstrates strong coding ability and vision understanding, making it suitable for interactive applications with tight performance constraints.