Model comparison
GLM-4.5-Air vs Trinity Large Thinking
GLM-4.5-Air and Trinity Large Thinking score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 38.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air scores higher in 4 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.5-Air leads 24.1 to 16.9.
- Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.20 / $1.10 for GLM-4.5-Air.
- Trinity Large Thinking accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Arcee AI |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 38.6 |
| Released | 2025-07-20 | 2026-04-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | 98K | 80K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.20 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.10 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1397 | 1381 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1238 |
| SciCode | — | 36.1% |
| GSO | 2.9% | — |
Reasoning GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1379 | 1350 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.9% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 41.6% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 15.6% |
| ForecastBench | 59.2 | — |
Math Trinity Large Thinking leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 1366 |
| Omni-MATH | 39.1% | — |
Knowledge Trinity Large Thinking leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 6.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1370 | 1360 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 76.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 59.4% | — |
Multilingual GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1366 | 1325 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1426 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1399 | 1374 |
| LMArena German | 1377 | 1356 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1348 | 1311 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 1306 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1337 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | 1357 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1354 | 1334 |
| IFEval | 81.2% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1366 | 1355 |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.5-Air leads
GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5-Air | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1384 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1343 | 1320 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1342 |
| WildBench | 78.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-4.5-Air better than Trinity Large Thinking?
GLM-4.5-Air and Trinity Large Thinking score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 38.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5-Air or Trinity Large Thinking?
Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5-Air lists at $0.20 and $1.10.
Is GLM-4.5-Air or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.3 vs 34.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Trinity Large Thinking does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and Trinity Large Thinking share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.