Codestral 25.08 vs ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B vs GLM-4.5-Air

It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (GLM-4.5-Air 48/100, Codestral 25.08 47/100, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B 44/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: GLM-4.5-Air on price and GLM-4.5-Air for long inputs. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

GLM-4.5-Air is cheaper at $0.20 input / $1.10 output per million tokens (official Z.AI API price). Codestral 25.08 costs $0.30 input / $0.90 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price); ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B costs $0.42 input / $1.25 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.425 per million tokens for GLM-4.5-Air versus $0.45 for Codestral 25.08 (1.1× as much) and $0.627 for ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B (1.5× as much).

There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. Codestral 25.08 has not been scored yet, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B has not been scored yet and GLM-4.5-Air has not been scored yet.

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Codestral 25.08, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B and GLM-4.5-Air yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.

GLM-4.5-Air has the largest context window at 131,072 tokens, against 128,000 for Codestral 25.08 and 123,000 for ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B . Maximum output per response: Codestral 25.08 up to 8,192, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B up to 16,000, GLM-4.5-Air up to 98,304 tokens.

Codestral 25.08 accepts text; ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B accepts text and images; GLM-4.5-Air accepts text. ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B handles the widest range of inputs.

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B and GLM-4.5-Air publishes its weights and can be self-hosted; Codestral 25.08 is proprietary.

Codestral 25.08 is the newest, released Jul 30, 2025. GLM-4.5-Air came out Jul 28, 2025; ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B came out Jun 30, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Mar 31, 2025, GLM-4.5-Air Apr 2025.

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Nov 2, 2026.