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GLM 4.5 Air (Thinking)
GLM-4.5-Air with thinking mode enabled for enhanced reasoning capabilities. Shows step-by-step thought process.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.13
- Output
- $0.85
- Cache read
- $0.025
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 98.3K
- Average output (7 days)
- 973 tokens
- Longer than 70% of 465 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
11.1
Better than 23% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
80.7Composite of the math evaluations
Better than 72% of 118 scored models
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
46.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 25% of 309 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
7.0%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 24% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
73.3%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 31% of 291 scored models
MMLU-Pro
81.5%Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
Better than 60% of 132 scored models
IFBench
37.6%Following precise output instructions
Better than 20% of 215 scored models
Coding
LiveCodeBench
68.4%Recent competitive programming problems
Better than 65% of 129 scored models
Math
AIME 2025
80.7%Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
Better than 72% of 118 scored models
AIME
67.3%Competition mathematics
Better than 65% of 72 scored models
MATH-500
96.5%Competition math problems
Better than 65% of 73 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
20.5%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 39% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
46.5%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 37% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
46.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 25% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 55.3%
- About $0.072 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/GLM-4.5-Air:thinking",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/GLM-4.5-Air:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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