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GLM 4.6: price, performance and context
Open GLM 4.6 by Z.ai costs $0.43 per 1M input and $1.75 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 204.8K tokens in one request (≈ 610 pages of text) and scores 18.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 104 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 4 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.43
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.75
- Context window
- 204.8K tokens
- Max. output
- 16.4K tokens
- Performance index
- 18.5 points · rank 104 of 212
- Coding index
- 45.8 points · rank 63 of 119
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $0.868 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 2025
- In the catalog since
- Sep 30, 2025
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 10,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 12,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.002 | 4,400 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.004 | 2,400 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.047 | 220 |
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