Comparison
GLM-4.5-Air vs Qwen-2.5
Both models run on the Open LLMs API. Here is what differs between them, priced and specified from the same catalogue that serves the requests.
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GLM-4.5-Air costs $1.50 / 1M tokens and Qwen-2.5 costs $0.15 / 1M tokens on Open LLMs. Both are chat models, so the choice is between price and capability.
How do GLM-4.5-Air and Qwen-2.5 differ?
Every value is the one the API bills and serves against.
| Row label | GLM-4.5-Air | Qwen-2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Task | Chat | Chat |
| Price | $1.50 / 1M tokens | $0.15 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 33K tokens | 33K tokens |
| Modality | text → text | text → text |
| Parameters | 106B (12B active) | 500M |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
Which should I use?
Both answer the same kind of request, so run the cheaper one first and move only if its output is not good enough for your workload. That order costs you one experiment; the reverse costs you the difference on every request you make in the meantime. Full specifications: GLM-4.5-Air and Qwen-2.5. Every model and rate is on the pricing page.