GLM-4.5-Air vs Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
110.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
850 K
mit · commercial OK
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
140.6 B
Context
65,536
30d
46 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-4.5-Air Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 110.5 B 140.6 B
Architecture Glm4MoeForCausalLM MixtralForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 65,536
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2 5
Downloads 30d 850,129 46,472
Downloads all time 5.5 M 6.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-20 2024-04-16
API input price / 1M tokens $0.13 $2.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.85 $6.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.98 $8.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.025 $0.20
AA Intelligence Index 11.1 5.7
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 98,304 52,428
API providers 3 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

GLM-4.5-Air $0.98
Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 $8.00

GLM-4.5-Air is 8.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

850 K44 K
GLM-4.5-Air Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 · fp16 331.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
GLM-4.5-Air · fp16 @ 128K ctx 508.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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