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GLM-4.5-Air is the lightweight variant of our latest flagship model family, also purpose-built for agent-centric applications. Like GLM-4.5, it adopts the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture but with a more compact parameter size. GLM-4.5-Air also supports hybrid inference modes, offering a "thinking mode" for advanced reasoning and tool use, and a "non-thinking mode" for real-time interaction. Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)

Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air

OpenRouter

Grok 3 Mini is a lightweight, smaller thinking model. Unlike traditional models that generate answers immediately, Grok 3 Mini thinks before responding. It’s ideal for reasoning-heavy tasks that don’t demand extensive domain knowledge, and shines in math-specific and quantitative use cases, such as solving challenging puzzles or math problems.

Transparent "thinking" traces accessible. Defaults to low reasoning, can boost with setting `reasoning: { effort: "high" }`

Note: That there are two xAI endpoints for this model. By default when using this model we will always route you to the base endpoint. If you want the fast endpoint you can add `provider: { sort: throughput}`, to sort by throughput instead. 


xAI: Grok 3 Mini Beta

Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e. multi-pass reasoning) is disabled to prioritize speed, but developers can enable it via the [Reasoning API parameter](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens) to selectively trade off cost for intelligence. 

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3, a 685B-parameter, mixture-of-experts model, is the latest iteration of the flagship chat model family from the DeepSeek team.

It succeeds the [DeepSeek V3](/deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3) model and performs really well on a variety of tasks.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is an experimental large language model released by DeepSeek as an intermediate step between V3.1 and future architectures. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a fine-grained sparse attention mechanism designed to improve training and inference efficiency in long-context scenarios while maintaining output quality. Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)

The model was trained under conditions aligned with V3.1-Terminus to enable direct comparison. Benchmarking shows performance roughly on par with V3.1 across reasoning, coding, and agentic tool-use tasks, with minor tradeoffs and gains depending on the domain. This release focuses on validating architectural optimizations for extended context lengths rather than advancing raw task accuracy, making it primarily a research-oriented model for exploring efficient transformer designs.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp

OpenAI

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3.6B active parameters per forward pass, optimized for lower-latency inference and deployability on consumer or single-GPU hardware. The model is trained in OpenAI’s Harmony response format and supports reasoning level configuration, fine-tuning, and agentic capabilities including function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.

OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to [Gemini Flash 1.5](/google/gemini-flash-1.5), while maintaining quality on par with larger models like [Gemini Pro 1.5](/google/gemini-pro-1.5), all at extremely economical token prices.

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

Gemini Flash 2.0 offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to [Gemini Flash 1.5](/google/gemini-flash-1.5), while maintaining quality on par with larger models like [Gemini Pro 1.5](/google/gemini-pro-1.5). It introduces notable enhancements in multimodal understanding, coding capabilities, complex instruction following, and function calling. These advancements come together to deliver more seamless and robust agentic experiences.

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash

Mistral

Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding released end of July 2025. Codestral specializes in low-latency, high-frequency tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM), code correction and test generation.

[Blog Post](https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-25-08)

Mistral: Codestral 2508

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview September 2025 Checkpoint is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. 

Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter, as described in the documentation (https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#max-tokens-for-reasoning).

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025

GPT-5 Chat is designed for advanced, natural, multimodal, and context-aware conversations for enterprise applications.

OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat

Perplexity

Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro)

For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, the Sonar Pro API can handle in-depth, multi-step queries with added extensibility, like double the number of citations per search as Sonar on average. Plus, with a larger context window, it can handle longer and more nuanced searches and follow-up questions. 

Perplexity: Sonar Pro

GLM-4.7 is Z.AI’s latest flagship model, featuring upgrades in two key areas: enhanced programming capabilities and more stable multi-step reasoning/execution. It demonstrates significant improvements in executing complex agent tasks while delivering more natural conversational experiences and superior front-end aesthetics.

Z.AI: GLM 4.7

GLM-4.6V is a large multimodal model designed for high-fidelity visual understanding and long-context reasoning across images, documents, and mixed media. It supports up to 128K tokens, processes complex page layouts and charts directly as visual inputs, and integrates native multimodal function calling to connect perception with downstream tool execution. The model also enables interleaved image-text generation and UI reconstruction workflows, including screenshot-to-HTML synthesis and iterative visual editing.

Z.AI: GLM 4.6V

Compared with GLM-4.5, this generation brings several key improvements:

Longer context window: The context window has been expanded from 128K to 200K tokens, enabling the model to handle more complex agentic tasks.
Superior coding performance: The model achieves higher scores on code benchmarks and demonstrates better real-world performance in applications such as Claude Code、Cline、Roo Code and Kilo Code, including improvements in generating visually polished front-end pages.
Advanced reasoning: GLM-4.6 shows a clear improvement in reasoning performance and supports tool use during inference, leading to stronger overall capability.
More capable agents: GLM-4.6 exhibits stronger performance in tool using and search-based agents, and integrates more effectively within agent frameworks.
Refined writing: Better aligns with human preferences in style and readability, and performs more naturally in role-playing scenarios.

Z.AI: GLM 4.6

As a 30B-class SOTA model, GLM-4.7-Flash offers a new option that balances performance and efficiency. It is further optimized for agentic coding use cases, strengthening coding capabilities, long-horizon task planning, and tool collaboration, and has achieved leading performance among open-source models of the same size on several current public benchmark leaderboards.

Z.AI: GLM 4.7 Flash

GLM-4.5 is our latest flagship foundation model, purpose-built for agent-based applications. It leverages a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supports a context length of up to 128k tokens. GLM-4.5 delivers significantly enhanced capabilities in reasoning, code generation, and agent alignment. It supports a hybrid inference mode with two options, a "thinking mode" designed for complex reasoning and tool use, and a "non-thinking mode" optimized for instant responses. Users can control the reasoning behaviour with the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)

Z.AI: GLM 4.5

GLM-4.5V is a vision-language foundation model for multimodal agent applications. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106B parameters and 12B activated parameters, it achieves state-of-the-art results in video understanding, image Q&A, OCR, and document parsing, with strong gains in front-end web coding, grounding, and spatial reasoning. It offers a hybrid inference mode: a "thinking mode" for deep reasoning and a "non-thinking mode" for fast responses. Reasoning behavior can be toggled via the `reasoning` `enabled` boolean. [Learn more in our docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#enable-reasoning-with-default-config)

Z.AI: GLM 4.5V

GLM 4 32B is a cost-effective foundation language model.

It can efficiently perform complex tasks and has significantly enhanced capabilities in tool use, online search, and code-related intelligent tasks.

It is made by the same lab behind the thudm models.

Model	Cost
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	-69%
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite	-59%
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash	-47%
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp	-44%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025	-43%

Model	Latency
Mistral: Codestral 2508	-94%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025	-92%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025	-88%
OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat	-88%
Perplexity: Sonar Pro	-87%

Model	Score
xAI: Grok 3 Mini Beta	+5%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	+4%
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324	+4%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025	+3%
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp	+1%

Model	Score	Latency	Cost/1M
Z.AI: GLM 4.6	96.9%	36.3s	$0.93
Z.AI: GLM 4.5	92.1%	48.4s	$0.95
Z.AI: GLM 4.6	91.9%	41.7s	$1.10
Z.AI: GLM 4.7	82.7%	56.9s	$0.95
Z.AI: GLM 4.5V	80.8%	51.3s	$1.20
Z.AI: GLM 4.6V	71.4%	57.3s	$0.60
Z.AI: GLM 4 32B	67.7%	18.7s	$0.10
Z.AI: GLM 4.7 Flash	54.2%	175.4s	$0.23

Z.AI: GLM 4.5 Air

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