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| Starting Price | $1.30e-7 per prompt token | $3.00e-6 per prompt token |
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GLM-4.5-Air processes multi-turn conversations with native support for structured function calling via schema-based tool definitions. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture where only a subset of expert parameters activate per token, reducing inference latency while maintaining reasoning quality. It routes conversation context through sparse expert layers, enabling efficient handling of tool invocations, parameter extraction, and agent decision-making without full model activation.
Unique: Implements MoE-based function calling where expert routing decisions are made per-token, allowing the model to dynamically allocate computation only to relevant experts for tool-calling tasks. This differs from dense models that activate all parameters regardless of task complexity, and from other MoE implementations that use static routing patterns.
vs alternatives: Achieves agent-level reasoning with 40-60% fewer active parameters than dense alternatives like GPT-4, reducing inference cost and latency while maintaining tool-calling accuracy through sparse expert specialization.
GLM-4.5-Air handles extended conversation histories through optimized token management and sparse attention patterns enabled by its MoE architecture. The model compresses context representation by routing only relevant context through active experts, reducing the computational cost of maintaining long conversation state. This allows multi-turn dialogues with hundreds of messages without proportional latency degradation.
Unique: Uses MoE sparse routing to compress context representation — only relevant experts process historical context, avoiding the quadratic attention cost of dense models on long sequences. This enables efficient context reuse without explicit summarization or context pruning strategies.
vs alternatives: Handles 2-3x longer conversation histories than similarly-sized dense models with comparable latency, because sparse expert routing reduces attention computation from O(n²) to approximately O(n·k) where k is the number of active experts.
GLM-4.5-Air can generate responses conforming to strict JSON schemas or structured formats through constrained decoding and schema-aware token routing. The model uses its MoE architecture to specialize certain experts for structured output generation, ensuring responses match predefined schemas without post-processing validation. This enables reliable extraction of entities, relationships, and structured information from unstructured text inputs.
Unique: Leverages MoE expert specialization to route schema-conformance checking through dedicated experts, enabling token-level constraint enforcement without external grammar-based decoding. This differs from regex or grammar-based constrained decoding which operates post-hoc on token sequences.
vs alternatives: Produces schema-compliant JSON with higher first-pass accuracy than post-processing approaches, and with lower latency overhead than grammar-based constrained decoding because schema validation is integrated into expert routing rather than applied as a separate decoding constraint.
GLM-4.5-Air supports server-sent events (SSE) streaming where tokens are emitted as they are generated, enabling real-time response display and token-level monitoring. The model streams through its MoE layers, allowing clients to observe token generation in real-time and implement early-stopping logic based on partial outputs. This architecture enables interactive applications where users see responses appearing incrementally rather than waiting for full generation.
Unique: Implements token-level streaming through MoE expert outputs, where each expert's contribution is streamed independently before being combined. This enables granular token-level observability and early-stopping at the expert routing level rather than post-generation.
vs alternatives: Provides lower latency to first token than batched generation approaches, and enables more granular early-stopping control than models that only support full-response streaming.
GLM-4.5-Air maintains multilingual reasoning capabilities through language-specific expert routing in its MoE architecture. The model activates different expert subsets depending on input language, enabling code generation, mathematical reasoning, and logical inference across programming languages, natural languages, and formal notations. This approach avoids the parameter bloat of dense multilingual models by specializing experts per language family.
Unique: Uses language-family-aware expert routing where different language groups (e.g., Germanic languages, Sino-Tibetan, programming languages) activate specialized expert subsets. This avoids the parameter explosion of dense multilingual models while maintaining language-specific reasoning quality.
vs alternatives: Achieves comparable multilingual code generation quality to larger dense models (GPT-4) with 40-60% fewer parameters by routing computation to language-specific experts rather than activating all parameters for every language.
GLM-4.5-Air's MoE architecture dynamically activates only a subset of expert parameters per token, reducing computational cost compared to dense models. The model routes each token through a gating network that selects 2-4 active experts from a larger pool (typically 64-128 experts), achieving inference cost reduction while maintaining output quality. This sparse activation pattern is transparent to users but directly impacts per-token pricing and latency.
Unique: Implements dynamic expert gating where a learned router network selects active experts per token, enabling sub-linear scaling of inference cost with model size. Unlike static MoE designs, the gating network adapts expert selection based on input tokens, optimizing for both quality and efficiency.
vs alternatives: Achieves 30-50% lower inference cost than dense models of comparable quality (e.g., GPT-3.5-turbo) due to sparse expert activation, while maintaining reasoning quality through selective expert routing rather than parameter reduction.
Generates natural language responses mimicking Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus writing style through fine-tuning on Qwen2.5 72B base model. Uses instruction-tuned architecture to follow complex multi-step prompts while maintaining coherent, well-structured prose with appropriate tone and formality levels. The model learns stylistic patterns from Claude outputs during fine-tuning rather than using retrieval or prompt engineering alone.
Unique: Fine-tuned specifically on Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus output patterns rather than generic instruction-tuning, creating a style-matched alternative that preserves Anthropic's prose characteristics while running on Qwen2.5's 72B architecture
vs alternatives: Offers Claude-quality writing at lower cost than Anthropic's API and with more deployment flexibility than proprietary models, though with less transparency about training methodology than fully open-source alternatives like Llama
Maintains coherent multi-turn dialogue through transformer-based attention mechanisms that track conversation history and speaker context. The instruction-tuned architecture processes entire conversation threads as input, allowing the model to reference previous exchanges, maintain consistent character/tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns without explicit memory structures.
Unique: Inherits Qwen2.5's instruction-tuning approach to conversation, which explicitly trains on multi-turn formats with clear role markers, enabling better context resolution than models trained primarily on single-turn examples
vs alternatives: Simpler integration than systems requiring external memory stores (RAG, vector DBs) since context is handled natively, but less sophisticated than models with explicit memory architectures or retrieval-augmented approaches for very long conversations
Magnum v4 72B scores higher at 25/100 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air at 22/100.
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Generates code snippets and technical explanations by applying instruction-tuned patterns learned from fine-tuning on Claude outputs. The model understands code context from natural language descriptions, can generate multiple programming languages, and provides explanations alongside code. Implementation relies on transformer attention over code tokens and learned associations between natural language intent and code patterns.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's code generation outputs, capturing Anthropic's approach to code explanation and safety considerations (e.g., error handling suggestions) rather than pure code-to-code translation
vs alternatives: Provides better code explanations and safety context than specialized code models like CodeLlama, but likely slower and less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on code-only datasets
Applies learned chain-of-thought reasoning patterns from Claude fine-tuning to break down complex problems into steps. The model generates intermediate reasoning steps before final answers, using transformer attention to track logical dependencies across reasoning chains. This is achieved through instruction-tuning on examples where Claude explicitly shows reasoning work.
Unique: Inherits Claude's explicit chain-of-thought training approach, which emphasizes showing reasoning work as part of the output rather than reasoning internally, making reasoning patterns visible and auditable
vs alternatives: More transparent reasoning than models without explicit chain-of-thought training, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on mathematical reasoning datasets or formal logic
Condenses long-form text into summaries while preserving key information, using attention mechanisms to identify salient content and instruction-tuned patterns for summary formatting. The model learns from Claude's summarization style, which emphasizes clarity and hierarchical organization of information. Works by attending to important tokens and generating compressed representations.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's summarization outputs, which emphasize hierarchical structure and clear topic organization rather than extractive summarization, producing more readable abstracts
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and readability than extractive summarization tools, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on summarization tasks or using dedicated abstractive architectures
Executes complex, multi-part instructions by parsing task structure and maintaining execution context across steps. The instruction-tuned architecture learns to identify task boundaries, handle conditional logic (if-then patterns), and sequence operations correctly. Implementation relies on transformer attention to track task state and learned patterns from Claude's instruction-following training.
Unique: Trained on Claude's instruction-following patterns, which emphasize explicit acknowledgment of task structure and step-by-step execution reporting, making task progress transparent
vs alternatives: More reliable instruction-following than base models without instruction-tuning, but less specialized than models with explicit task planning architectures or reinforcement learning from human feedback on instruction compliance
Answers questions by understanding context, identifying relevant information, and generating coherent responses. Uses transformer attention to locate answer-relevant tokens and instruction-tuned patterns to format responses appropriately. The model learns from Claude's question-answering style, which emphasizes accuracy, nuance, and acknowledgment of uncertainty.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's QA outputs, which emphasize acknowledging uncertainty, providing nuanced answers, and explaining reasoning rather than simple factual retrieval
vs alternatives: Better answer quality and nuance than retrieval-based QA systems, but without external knowledge bases or web search, limited to training data knowledge unlike RAG-augmented systems
Generates creative text including stories, essays, marketing copy, and other original content by learning stylistic patterns from Claude's creative outputs. The model uses transformer attention to maintain narrative coherence, character consistency, and thematic development across generated text. Fine-tuning captures Claude's approach to balancing creativity with clarity.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's creative outputs, which balance imaginative storytelling with clarity and coherence, producing more readable creative content than models trained purely on internet text
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and narrative coherence than base language models, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on creative writing datasets or with explicit story structure training