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Run GLM-4.5-Air locally

GLM-4.5-Air is a 110.5B mixture-of-experts (12B active) model from Z.ai with a 131K-token context window, released under MIT (commercial use is allowed); the smallest listed download is 60.1 GB, the 4bit MLX build from mlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-4bit.

Official weights: zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air

Total params
110.5B
Active params
12B
Context
131K
Smallest download
60.1 GB

Fits in

Smallest download at most 85% of memory

Downloads

The official weights and every quantization listed for this model, with file sizes from Hugging Face.

GLM-4.5-Air downloads and file sizes
DownloadFormatSizeRepo
Official weightsBF16220.9 GBzai-org/GLM-4.5-Air
Q4_K_MGGUF73.0 GBunsloth/GLM-4.5-Air-GGUF
Q8_0GGUF117.5 GBunsloth/GLM-4.5-Air-GGUF
4bitSmallest listedMLX60.1 GBmlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-4bit
FP8FP8112.6 GBzai-org/GLM-4.5-Air-FP8

GB is decimal: 1 GB = 10^9 bytes. Add memory for the context and the operating system on top of the file size.

Run it

The official pages read for this directory publish no copyable run command for GLM-4.5-Air. Download the weights from zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air and follow the model card's serving instructions.

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License

License
MITmit
Commercial use
Commercial use: YesCommercial use is allowed.
Gated download
No. The files download directly.

Worth knowing

Compact Z.ai text MoE with 106B total and 12B active parameters per the card, released under MIT for commercial use.

Released (per the announcement).

API pricing and specsHosted prices per 1M tokens for GLM-4.5-Air, if you would rather not run it yourself.

FAQ

How big is the GLM-4.5-Air download?

The official BF16 weights in zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air are 220.9 GB. The smallest listed download is 60.1 GB, the 4bit MLX build from mlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-4bit. Plan for more memory than the file size: the context (KV cache) and the operating system need room too.

Can I use GLM-4.5-Air commercially?

GLM-4.5-Air is released under MIT, and commercial use is allowed. The license text is at https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air.

How much memory do I need for GLM-4.5-Air?

By this directory's rule of thumb it fits in 128 GB and up: the smallest listed download, 60.1 GB, is at most 85% of 128 GB, which leaves room for the context and the operating system.

What is the context length of GLM-4.5-Air?

131,072 tokens. A longer context needs more memory for the KV cache, so you can run with a shorter one when memory is tight.

Sources

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