Z.ai (Zhipu) · Released Dec 8, 2025GLM-4.6V-Flash
Lightweight GLM vision model for visual reasoning, documents, and multimodal agents.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.161per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.559per 1M tokens
- Context
- 128K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.161per million tokens
- Output
- $0.559per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.261cheaper than 75% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.601 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $6.82 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $68.19 |
Median of 2 paid API providers on models.dev; Z.ai (Zhipu) also offers it free on Z.AI.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for GLM-4.6V-Flash yet.
The details
- Lab
- Z.ai (Zhipu)
- Released
- Dec 8, 2025
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Can be switched on or off
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
glm-4.6v-flashon Z.AI- Availability
- 6 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About GLM-4.6V-Flash
How much does GLM-4.6V-Flash cost?
GLM-4.6V-Flash costs $0.161 input / $0.559 output per million tokens (median across 2 API providers; free on Z.AI). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.261 per million tokens, cheaper than 75% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of GLM-4.6V-Flash?
GLM-4.6V-Flash accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is GLM-4.6V-Flash?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for GLM-4.6V-Flash yet.
Is GLM-4.6V-Flash open source?
Yes. Z.ai (Zhipu) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does GLM-4.6V-Flash support?
GLM-4.6V-Flash accepts text, images and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was GLM-4.6V-Flash released?
Z.ai (Zhipu) released GLM-4.6V-Flash on Dec 8, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to GLM-4.6V-Flash?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Ministral 3 14B (Mistral AI, $0.268 / $0.325), Grok 4.1 Fast (xAI, $0.20 / $0.50), Solar Pro 3 (Upstage, $0.25 / $0.25) and Jamba Mini (AI21 Labs, $0.20 / $0.40).