Model comparison

GLM-4.5-Air vs GPT-6 Luna

GPT-6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

GPT-6 Luna OpenAI

53.3

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Luna in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6 Luna leads 76.1 to 36.2.
  • GPT-6 Luna is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.20 / $1.10 for GLM-4.5-Air.
  • GPT-6 Luna accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • GLM-4.5-Air has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.5-Air and GPT-6 Luna specifications
GLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index38.953.3
Released2025-07-202026-09-22
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K1.05M
Max output98K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.20$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.10$0.50
Results tracked2742

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), GPT-6 Luna: 55.5 (#25)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Coding13971439
DeepSWE—66.6%
FrontierCode—42.4%
LMArena WebDev—1581
SciCode—54.6%
GSO2.9%—
ALE-Bench—1,577

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: —, GPT-6 Luna: 33.3 (#54)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
APEX-Agents—44.3%
GDP.pdf—23%

Reasoning GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), GPT-6 Luna: 48.2 (#41)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Hard Prompts13791411
ARC-AGI-2—59.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark43%—
NYT Connections (extended)—68.7%
ARC-AGI-1—86.7%
CritPt—19.4%
Chess Puzzles—31%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—90.1%
LMCA—44.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.28
ForecastBench59.2—

Math GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), GPT-6 Luna: 76.1 (#15)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Math13961416
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—78.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—56.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.9%
ProofBench—64%
Omni-MATH39.1%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), GPT-6 Luna: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Expert13701444
GPQA Diamond—90.5%
Humanity's Last Exam8.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—41.4%
MMLU-Pro76.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5-Air: —, GPT-6 Luna: 42.4 (#30)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Vision—1217
Blueprint-Bench 2—31.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%

Multilingual GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), GPT-6 Luna: 50.5 (#117)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Non-English13661386
LMArena Chinese14261433
LMArena French13991420
LMArena German13771369
LMArena Japanese13481369
LMArena Korean13081360
LMArena Russian13731394
LMArena Spanish13861393

Instruction Following GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), GPT-6 Luna: 74.3 (#99)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Instruction Following13541409
IFEval81.2%—

Long Context GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), GPT-6 Luna: 43.0 (#111)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Longer Query13661409

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Luna leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), GPT-6 Luna: 58.3 (#119)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirGPT-6 Luna
LMArena Text13841391
LMArena Creative Writing13431363
LMArena Multi-Turn13711396
WildBench78.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5-Air better than GPT-6 Luna?

GPT-6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5-Air or GPT-6 Luna?

GPT-6 Luna is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5-Air lists at $0.20 and $1.10.

Is GLM-4.5-Air or GPT-6 Luna better for coding?

GPT-6 Luna scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Luna does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and GPT-6 Luna share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Luna has 42.

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