Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini offers 167.9K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.5 Air. GLM-4.5 Air is $5.40 cheaper per million tokens. o4 mini 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.
OpenAI
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
3 months newer

o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.5 Air
o4 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
o4 mini
GLM-4.5 Air
o4 mini
GLM-4.5 Air
o4 mini
OpenAI