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# Z.ai: GLM 4.6 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Z.ai: GLM 4.6: $0.500/M in, $2.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GLM 4.6

Z.ai · released 2025-09-30

 $0.875 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+22.5** higher and costs **88% less** ($0.105/M against $0.875/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Gemini 3.7 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.7-flash) is cheaper still (14% less) but drops 131K → 66K max output.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.500 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.100 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 29.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 45.8 |
| Agentic | 18.6 |
| LMArena Elo | 1439.8 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - godotgamedev #13 of 43 1180
- mobileapps #29 of 56 1147
- androidnative #29 of 54 1111

### Capability

| Context window | 205K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

Compared with GLM-4.5, this generation brings several key improvements: Longer context window: The context window has been expanded from 128K to 200K tokens, enabling the model to handle more complex...