GLM 4.5 Air

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GLM 4.5 Air is the efficiency-focused variant of the GLM-4.5 series, with 106 billion total parameters and only 12 billion active per forward pass through MoE routing. Designed to run on consumer-class GPUs and quantizable for broader hardware, it reports a benchmark score of 59.8, leading models in its parameter tier while keeping compute requirements modest. The model keeps the hybrid reasoning design of its larger sibling, switching between a thinking mode for complex tasks and a non-thinking mode for immediate responses. Its 128K context window and strong tool-calling results make it a fit for resource-constrained agentic systems where speed and cost matter alongside capability. Training spans many languages with strong Chinese and English fluency, and it ships under an MIT license for commercial use and further development. GLM 4.5 Air is aimed at agent applications that need a balance of reasoning depth and inference efficiency, including local deployment and cost-sensitive production systems where a smaller active parameter count reduces latency.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
131K
Max output
98K
Input price
$0.13 /1M
Output price
$0.85 /1M
Released
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

GLM 4.5 Air runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$0.13$0.85

Uptime and availability

GLM 4.5 Air runs on a single route through the qynio gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

100%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. .

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider qynio monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting GLM 4.5 Air has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

Novita β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go β€” no action required. No training on customer data. US; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores β€” composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index16.7
Math Index80.7
Reasoning & knowledge
MMLU-Pro
82%
GPQA Diamond
73%
Humanity's Last Exam
7%
Long-context reasoning
46%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
68%
SciCode
31%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
20%
τ²-Bench Telecom
46%
Math & instruction following
AIME 2025
81%
IFBench
38%

Get started

Call GLM 4.5 Air through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "novita/zai-org/glm-4.5-air",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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