Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 2 offers 7.2K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.5 Air. GLM-4.5 Air is $11.90 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5 Air is a lightweight variant from Zhipu AI's GLM-4 model family, designed for efficient deployments requiring lower inference cost while maintaining strong language understanding and generation capabilities. It targets cost-sensitive production workloads, API integrations, and applications where the full GLM-4.x series capacity exceeds requirements.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
11 months newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
Grok 2
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 2
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 2
xAI