# Command R+ vs GLM-4.5-Air

> GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-glm-4-5-air
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 1 category and GLM-4.5-Air in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.5-Air leads 24.1 to 9.2.
- GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
- GLM-4.5-Air accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 38.9 |
| Rank | 257 | 177 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $0.20 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $1.10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Command R+: 29.1 (#309)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 33.3 (#259)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1397 |
| GSO | — | 2.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 9.2 (#344)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 24.1 (#166)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1379 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 43% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.2 |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 28.9 (#242)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 36.2 (#170)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1396 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 39.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 36.4 (#169)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 35.0 (#191)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1370 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 76.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.6 (#227)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 49.1 (#135)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1366 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1426 |
| LMArena French | 1209 | 1399 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1377 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1348 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1386 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.0 (#254)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 69.6 (#171)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1354 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81.2% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#219)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 41.6 (#135)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | 1366 |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.5 (#228)
- GLM-4.5-Air: 55.9 (#139)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | GLM-4.5-Air |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1343 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1371 |
| WildBench | — | 78.9% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than GLM-4.5-Air?

GLM-4.5-Air is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Command R+ 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; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Command R+ or GLM-4.5-Air better for coding?

GLM-4.5-Air scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.5-Air does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Command R+ and GLM-4.5-Air share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5-Air has 27.