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GLM-4.5

Zhipu AI's flagship, strong open-weight Chinese model with broad commercial deployment.

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Quick facts

Released
Jul 2025
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
Pricing not published
License
MIT

About GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5 is Zhipu AI's mid-2025 flagship open-weight release, with particular strength on Chinese benchmarks and competitive performance on reasoning tasks. Used heavily in Chinese commercial deployments.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Other's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
,
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

  • MIT license
  • Strong Chinese
  • Multimodal

Tracked weaknesses

  • Smaller Western community

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Other.

Per-token pricing not yet published for GLM-4.5. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call GLM-4.5 from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Other SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "glm-4-5",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Best for

Tasks where GLM-4.5 ranks among LLMDex's top picks.

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Frequently asked

  • How much does GLM-4.5 cost?
    Other has not published per-token API pricing for GLM-4.5 at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
  • What is GLM-4.5's context window?
    GLM-4.5 supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is GLM-4.5 open source?
    GLM-4.5 ships with open weights under the MIT license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
  • When was GLM-4.5 released?
    GLM-4.5 was released on Jul 28, 2025 by Other.
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