Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-4.5-Air

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5-Air costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GLM-4.5-Air in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 56.5 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 53.5% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 43% for GLM-4.5-Air.
  • GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1.98 for DeepSeek V4 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-4.5-Air specifications
DeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
ProviderDeepSeekZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index54.338.9
Released2026-04-242025-07-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output393K98K
Input $ / M tokens$0.66$0.20
Output $ / M tokens$1.98$1.10
Results tracked4827

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34), GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Coding14701397
SWE-bench Verified77.6%—
FrontierCode28.6%—
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode51%—
GSO—2.9%
WeirdML66.2%—
ALE-Bench1,403—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58), GLM-4.5-Air: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
APEX-Agents47.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,285—

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24), GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%43%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611379
ForecastBench56.159.2
ARC-AGI-261.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-190.5%—
CritPt18%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench93.9%—
LMCA45.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.31—

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30), GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Math14551396
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)64.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.6%—
ProofBench50%—
Omni-MATH—39.1%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31), GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%9.3%
LMArena Expert14641370
GPQA Diamond91.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
SimpleQA Verified52.9%—
MMLU-Pro—76.2%
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45), GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Non-English14391366
LMArena Chinese14861426
LMArena French14721399
LMArena German14581377
LMArena Japanese14451348
LMArena Korean14471308
LMArena Russian14531373
LMArena Spanish14581386

Instruction Following DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47), GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Instruction Following14481354
IFEval—81.2%

Long Context DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51), GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Longer Query14581366
CL-bench Life13.5%—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46), GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-4.5-Air
LMArena Text14511384
LMArena Creative Writing14461343
LMArena Multi-Turn14671371
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—
WildBench—78.9%
EQ-Bench 41166—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than GLM-4.5-Air?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5-Air costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GLM-4.5-Air?

GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Pro lists at $0.66 and $1.98.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-4.5-Air share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.

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