Is GLM 4.5 Air or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct cheaper?

GLM 4.5 Air is cheaper on output tokens ($0.50 vs $0.80 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, GLM 4.5 Air or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct?

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).

GLM 4.5 Air vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct

GLM 4.5 Air is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose GLM 4.5 Air or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	GLM 4.5 Air	Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Provider	submodel	submodel
Input / 1M tokens	$0.10	$0.20
Output / 1M tokens	$0.50	$0.80
Context window	131K	262K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jul 2025	Aug 2025

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