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Claude Sonnet 4vsGLM-4.5-Air

Claude Sonnet 4 and GLM-4.5-Air do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. GLM-4.5-Air is 13.8x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 4 has the larger context window (200K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
GLM-4.5-Air
13.8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Z.ai
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
Context
200K
Max out
64K
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
$0.3
Scores
4 · 4 core
text
Context
128K
Max out
98K
Input /1M
$0.2
Output /1M
$1.1
Cached /1M
$0.03
Scores
2 · 2 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4GLM-4.5-AirΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 4
SWE-bench Verified72.7% not reported
GPQA Diamond79.2% epochnot reported
AIME 2024 (no extended thinking)33.1% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)71.1% epochnot reported
Only GLM-4.5-Air reports · 2
AIME 2025not reported83.3% matharena
LMArena Elonot reported1383.6
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4 minus GLM-4.5-Air in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Sonnet 4GLM-4.5-AirEdge
Context window200K tokens128K tokensClaude Sonnet 4
Max output64K tokens98K tokensGLM-4.5-Air
Input price / 1M$3 $0.2 GLM-4.5-Air
Output price / 1M$15 $1.1 GLM-4.5-Air
Cached input / 1M$0.3 $0.03 GLM-4.5-Air
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$18$1.3GLM-4.5-Air
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Sonnet 4
Released2025-05-22
Cited benchmark scores42
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