Z.ai (Zhipu) · Released Sep 30, 2025GLM-4.6
Late GLM-4 workhorse for coding agents, reasoning, and structured tasks.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.60per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.20per 1M tokens
- Context
- 205K131K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.60per million tokens
- Output
- $2.20per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.11per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.00pricier than 55% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.30 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $26.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $260.00 |
Official Z.AI API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for GLM-4.6 yet.
The details
- Lab
- Z.ai (Zhipu)
- Released
- Sep 30, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Context window
- 204,800 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Can be switched on or off
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
glm-4.6on Z.AI- Availability
- 18 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Z.ai (Zhipu) claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About GLM-4.6
How much does GLM-4.6 cost?
GLM-4.6 costs $0.60 input / $2.20 output per million tokens (official Z.AI API price). Cached input is $0.11 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.00 per million tokens, more expensive than 55% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of GLM-4.6?
GLM-4.6 accepts up to 204,800 tokens per request and can write up to 131,072 tokens in one response.
How good is GLM-4.6?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for GLM-4.6 yet.
Is GLM-4.6 open source?
Yes. Z.ai (Zhipu) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does GLM-4.6 support?
GLM-4.6 accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was GLM-4.6 released?
Z.ai (Zhipu) released GLM-4.6 on Sep 30, 2025. Its training data runs to Apr 2025.
What are the best alternatives to GLM-4.6?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Ling-1T (inclusionAI, $0.57 / $2.29), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.50 / $2.00), Nova 2 Lite (Amazon, $0.33 / $2.75) and Apertus 70B (Swiss AI, $0.82 / $2.42).