Model comparison

GLM-4.5-Air vs Longcat Flash Chat

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air scores higher in 1 category and Longcat Flash Chat in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 33.3.

Side by side

GLM-4.5-Air and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
GLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Meituan
Noometry Index38.942.1
Released2025-07-20—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output98K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.20—
Output $ / M tokens$1.10—
Results tracked2719

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding13971471
GSO2.9%—

Reasoning GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark43%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13791440
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
ForecastBench59.2—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13961442
Omni-MATH39.1%—

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert13701454
Humanity's Last Exam8.1%—
MMLU-Pro76.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13661404
LMArena Chinese14261465
LMArena French13991456
LMArena German13771408
LMArena Japanese13481373
LMArena Korean13081371
LMArena Russian13731395
LMArena Spanish13861445

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13541411
IFEval81.2%—

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query13661425

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13841427
LMArena Creative Writing13431388
LMArena Multi-Turn13711418
WildBench78.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5-Air better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-4.5-Air or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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