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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GLM 4.5 Air
List-price comparison · Claude Haiku 4.5 details · GLM 4.5 Air details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), GLM 4.5 Air costs 85% less — $49.00/mo vs $320.00/mo.
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | GLM 4.5 Air | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | $0.125 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.850 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0032 | $0.0005 |
| Context window | 200k tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 64k tokens | 131,070 tokens |
| Tier | Flash | Flash |
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.ai |
Projected monthly cost
1,000 requests / month$3.20 vs $0.4910,000 requests / month$32.00 vs $4.90100,000 requests / month$320.00 vs $49.00
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.
Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.
GLM 4.5 Air
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.