GLM-4.5 Air
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
GLM-4.5 Air is the compact member of Zhipu AI's (Z.ai) GLM-4.5 family: 106 billion parameters in total, but only 12 billion active thanks to a mixture-of-experts design, aimed at a leaner cost-to-performance ratio. It runs in hybrid mode, switching between deep reasoning and instant replies, with a 128k-token window built for agentic workflows. Weights are open under an MIT licence, so it can be self-hosted on-premise in Europe with data kept local, though the benchmark figures published so far come only from the vendor, with no independent verification yet.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Three independent measures
What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.
Strengths
- World-class on Arena
- Open-source and self-hostable
Limitations
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you want to control cost or self-host
- your data must stay in the EU
Ideal use cases
- Autonomous agent orchestration
- Business workflow automation
- Custom internal copilots
- Multi-step reasoning tasks
- Sovereign on-premise deployment
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
19/19 criteria documented · 100 % · 12 of them set by rule
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/glm-4-5-air)Data & compliance
What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.
| EU data residency | Yes |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Transfer outside the EU | No |
| Training on your data | No |
| Configurable retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Zero Data Retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Declared hosting | self |
Quality of this card’s data
This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.
6/8 documented · 2/8 primary sources
Run it locally
| Quantization | Disk | RAM / VRAM | Typical hardware |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 · recommended | 60.4 GB | 68 GB | 96-128GB Mac Studio / 4× GPUs |
| Q8 · balanced | 113.4 GB | 127 GB | Server GPU infra (H100/A100…) |
| FP16 · max quality | 212 GB | 235 GB | Server GPU infra (H100/A100…) |
Estimates for a moderate context. Long contexts need more RAM (KV cache).
Deploy
Copy-ready commands generated from this card. Adjust context length and GPU count to your hardware.
OpenAI-compatible server for production on NVIDIA GPUs.
pip install vllm
vllm serve zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air \
--max-model-len 32768 \
--tensor-parallel-size 2 \
--dtype autoAdvanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
| Arena Elo | 1373 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | — |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |