Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air vs Midjourney v6.1 benchmark

Name: Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air vs Midjourney v6.1 AI benchmark comparison
Creator: CompareLLM
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Comparing verified benchmark accuracy, speed, and token pricing between Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air and Midjourney v6.1. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.

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Executive Verdict Summary

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air holds empirical advantage (0 of 0 metrics)

Coding / SWESWE-bench

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirTop code solve rate

ReasoningGPQA / Live

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirTop logical accuracy

Best Value$/1M Tok

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirLowest API billing cost

Speed / TokTok/Sec

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirFastest stream rate

Zhipu

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air

Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (z-ai/glm-4.5-air). Preview until a second source matches.

Midjourney

Midjourney v6.1

Previous standard in aesthetic digital art generation, retained as a historical compare baseline.

v6.1Img Elo 1,265$80/1k imgs

Top Rival Showdowns for Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air

All Matchups

Compare vs:vs GPT Image 2 (High)vs Reve 2.1 vs Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)vs FLUX.2 [max]vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)

Image Quality Leader

No shared data

Single model data

Generation Speed Leader

No shared data

No latency data

Value per Dollar Leader

No shared data

Unpriced

Overall Matchup Breakdown

Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air (0)vsMidjourney v6.1 (5)

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air: 0W (0%)Midjourney v6.1: 5W (100%)

← Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirMidjourney v6.1 →

🏆Midjourney v6.1 Leads(3/3)

Visual Quality & Adherence

Arena Preference Elo, prompt fidelity & typography score

Benchmark

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirvsMidjourney v6.1

Image Elo

—vs1,265

Prompt adherence

—vs89%

Text rendering

—vs84%

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air: 0WMidjourney v6.1: 3W

🏆Midjourney v6.1 Leads(1/1)

Generation Latency

Time to render full-resolution image snapshot (seconds)

Benchmark

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirvsMidjourney v6.1

Generation time

—vs7.5s

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air: 0WMidjourney v6.1: 1W

🏆Midjourney v6.1 Leads(1/1)

Cost Efficiency

API inference cost per 1,000 generated images

Benchmark

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirvsMidjourney v6.1

Price per 1k images

—vs$80/1k

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air: 0WMidjourney v6.1: 1W

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirMidjourney v6.1

Image Elo

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.11,265

Generation time

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.17.5s

Price per 1k images

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.1$80/1k

Prompt adherence

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.189%

Text rendering

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.184%

Benchmark	Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air	Midjourney v6.1	Advantage Delta
Image Elo	—	1,265 seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Generation time	—	7.5s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Price per 1k images	—	$80/1k seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Prompt adherence	—	89% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—
Text rendering	—	84% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).

Save 100% with Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air

Monthly Image Production Volume25k images / month (25000 imgs)

Quick Presets:

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air$0.00 / mo

Rate: $0/1k

Midjourney v6.1$2,000.00 / mo

Rate: $80/1k

Estimated Cost Delta

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air is estimated to save $2,000.00/month ($24,000/year).

Based on 25k images generated

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionMidjourney v6.1

Midjourney v6.1 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Midjourney v6.1	Midjourney v6.1 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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LIVE BENCHMARK

Zhipu

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)131k

Input / 1M Tokens$0.13/1M

Output / 1M Tokens$0.85/1M

Midjourney

Midjourney v6.1

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)—

Input / 1M Tokens$80/1k

Output / 1M Tokens$80/1k

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: List prices are missing for at least one model.
Which is faster, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Context window is missing for at least one model.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air and Midjourney v6.1 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

Similar Head-to-Head Comparisons

All Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air matchups →|All Midjourney v6.1 matchups →

Midjourney v6.1 vs Midjourney v7 (next midjourney)GPT Image 2 (High) vs Midjourney v6.1 Reve 2.1 vs Midjourney v6.1 Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) vs Midjourney v6.1 Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) vs Midjourney v6.1 FLUX.2 [max] vs Midjourney v6.1

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 AirMidjourney v6.1

Image Elo

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.11,265

Generation time

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.17.5s

Price per 1k images

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.1$80/1k

Prompt adherence

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.189%

Text rendering

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air—

Midjourney v6.184%

Benchmark

Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air

Midjourney v6.1

Advantage Delta

Image Elo

—

1,265

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Generation time

—

7.5s

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Price per 1k images

—

$80/1k

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Prompt adherence

—

89%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Text rendering

—

84%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

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Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionMidjourney v6.1

Midjourney v6.1 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Midjourney v6.1	Midjourney v6.1 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

List prices are missing for at least one model.

Which is faster, Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air or Midjourney v6.1?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Context window is missing for at least one model.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air and Midjourney v6.1 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.