Saba vs GLM 4.5 Air

Saba at $0.230 in and $0.690 out and GLM 4.5 Air at $0.149 in and $0.978 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Saba

Mistral AI

0.17¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $0.690 out / 1M

33K context · released February 2025

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GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

0.15¢

for a client proposal

$0.149 in · $0.978 out / 1M

131K context · released July 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.32¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GLM 4.5 Air at $0.149 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Saba at $0.690 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.5 Air at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Saba

0.08¢

GLM 4.5 Air

0.08¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Saba

0.17¢

GLM 4.5 Air

0.15¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Saba

needs 155K ctx

GLM 4.5 Air

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Saba

needs 35K ctx

GLM 4.5 Air

0.62¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Saba

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.5 Air

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Saba

GLM 4.5 Air

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Saba

GLM 4.5 Air

Input / 1M tokens

$0.230

$0.149

Output / 1M tokens

$0.690

$0.978

Cached input / 1M

$0.023

$0.029

Specs

Saba

GLM 4.5 Air

Provider

Mistral AI

Z.ai

Released

February 2025

July 2025

Context window

33K

131K

Max output

—

98K

Input

Text and Files

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-09-30

2024-12-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Saba

Mistral AI

0.08¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

0.08¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.16¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 3,139 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.5 Air has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, GLM 4.5 Air is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.15¢.

For images or files, Saba can read them directly; GLM 4.5 Air is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, GLM 4.5 Air shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Saba or GLM 4.5 Air?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 4.5 Air at 0.15¢; Saba at 0.17¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.5 Air — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run Saba and GLM 4.5 Air side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.32¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.32¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.