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GLM-4.5-Air vs Mistral Small 4

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 11 shared benchmark results across 5 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

47.7/100
Margin
1.5pts
← winning
46.23/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: GLM-4.5-Air #133 (Supported); Mistral Small 4 #140 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. GLM-4.5-Air and Mistral Small 4 share 11 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 1 result is unique to GLM-4.5-Air; 5 to Mistral Small 4.

Updated July 23, 2026
Shared results
11
GLM-4.5-Air only
1
Mistral Small 4 only
5
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for GLM-4.5-Air and Mistral Small 4 is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 11 shared benchmark results across 5 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

GLM-4.5-Air is priced at $0.20 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens for Mistral Small 4. Mistral Small 4 has the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GLM-4.5-Air.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Comparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensGLM-4.5-Air$0.2 input / $1.1 outputMistral Small 4$0.15 input / $0.6 outputMistral Small 4 has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondGLM-4.5-Air106 tok/sMistral Small 4175 tok/sMistral Small 4 has the higher measured throughput.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenGLM-4.5-Air1.18 sMistral Small 40.64 sMistral Small 4 reaches the first token sooner.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensGLM-4.5-Air128KMistral Small 4256KMistral Small 4 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
τ²-bench resultsSource 46.5%41.2%GLM-4.5-Air leads
AA Agentic IndexSource 4.7%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 4.4%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 588Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
AA-SciCodeSource 30.6%38.0%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA Coding IndexSource 26.6%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
AA-LCRSource 43.7%44.7%Mistral Small 4 leads
CritPtSource 0.0%0.3%Mistral Small 4 leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 16.5%19.6%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 73.3%76.9%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA-HLESource 6.8%9.5%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -62.5%-29.9%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 15.5%22.1%Mistral Small 4 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 92.3%66.8%Mistral Small 4 leads
Multimodal
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1176Not comparable
AA-MMMU-ProSource 56.8%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirMistral Small 4Result
AA-IFBenchSource 37.6%48.2%Mistral Small 4 leads
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare GLM-4.5-Air and Mistral Small 4 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for GLM-4.5-Air and Mistral Small 4 today?

GLM-4.5-Air: $0.20 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens Mistral Small 4: $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

Self-host vs API cost

Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.

GLM-4.5-Air
API / mo$975
Self-host / moNot listed
Break-even
Proprietary model — self-hosting not applicable.
Mistral Small 4
API / mo$563
Self-host / mo$2,278
Break-even266M/day
Model the full break-even

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Last updated: July 23, 2026

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