Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air by Zhipu AI, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air is 14x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air
Input
$0.20
15× cheaper
Output
$1.10
14× cheaper
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air is cheaper on both — 15× input, 14× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air uses 9.9x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air
66%Vocabulary48%
74wSentence Length16w
0.72Hedging0.40
0.3Bold5.4
8.9Lists4.8
0.00Emoji0.10
0.06Headings0.75
0.09Transitions0.12
Based on 21 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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