Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 mini offers 15.4K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.5 Air. GLM-4.5 Air is $0.70 cheaper per million tokens. 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 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
5 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
Grok 3 mini
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 3 mini
GLM-4.5 Air
Grok 3 mini
xAI