Model comparison

GLM-4.5-Air vs MiniMax M1

MiniMax M1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.3 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.5-Air costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax M1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.9

Rank #177 Confirmed

MiniMax M1

MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5-Air scores higher in 4 categories and MiniMax M1 in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where MiniMax M1 leads 39.9 to 33.3.
GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.55 / $2.20 for MiniMax M1.
MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5-Air and MiniMax M1 specifications
	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
Provider	Z.ai (Zhipu)	MiniMax
Noometry Index	38.9	40.3
Released	2025-07-20	2025-06-13
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	131K	1M
Max output	98K	40K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.20	$0.55
Output $ / M tokens	$1.10	$2.20
Results tracked	27	18

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Coding	1397	1359
GSO	2.9%	—

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Hard Prompts	1379	1339
Kagi LLM Benchmark	43%	—
ForecastBench	59.2	—

Math MiniMax M1 leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Math	1396	1361
Omni-MATH	39.1%	—

Knowledge MiniMax M1 leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Expert	1370	1317
Humanity's Last Exam	8.1%	—
MMLU-Pro	76.2%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—
GPQA (HELM)	59.4%	—

Multilingual GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Non-English	1366	1319
LMArena Chinese	1426	1360
LMArena French	1399	1370
LMArena German	1377	1350
LMArena Japanese	1348	1217
LMArena Korean	1308	1266
LMArena Russian	1373	1329
LMArena Spanish	1386	1353

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Instruction Following	1354	1312
IFEval	81.2%	—

Long Context Too close to call

GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Longer Query	1366	1326
Fiction.LiveBench	—	69.4%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.5-Air leads

GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	GLM-4.5-Air	MiniMax M1
LMArena Text	1384	1343
LMArena Creative Writing	1343	1298
LMArena Multi-Turn	1371	1335
WildBench	78.9%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5-Air better than MiniMax M1?

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5-Air or MiniMax M1?

GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; MiniMax M1 lists at $0.55 and $2.20.

Is GLM-4.5-Air or MiniMax M1 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5-Air and MiniMax M1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5-Air has 27 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.