Deprecated on Jan 20, 2026. 9 providers still list it at the prices below.
Context
205K
Max output
203K
Serving providers
9
Cheapest input
$0.50 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face leaderboards
Speed & latency
Output speed
34 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
4.45s
latency
Headline indices
45.8
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
18.6
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt1%reasoning: true—
EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026631.4reasoning: true—
GDPval v2Frozen Aug 18, 2026933.9reasoning: true—
GPQA Diamond78%reasoning: true—
Humanity's Last Exam14%reasoning: true—
IFBench43%reasoning: true—
LiveCodeBench70%reasoning: true—
Long-Context Reasoning54%reasoning: true—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202683%reasoning: true—
Omniscience-31.7default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.3reasoning: true—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.3default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202638%——
SWE-bench Pro10%default—
TerminalBench Hard29%default—
TerminalBench v2.149%reasoning: true—
τ-bench Banking13%reasoning: true—
τ²-bench77%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Sep 9, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.50 to $2.25 per 1M tokens across 9 providers, so the dearest route costs 350% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
DeepInfraCheapest$0.50$2.001
Standarddeepinfra/zai-org/GLM-4.6
ComponentUnitStandard
Text cached in/1M tok$0.10
Text input/1M tok$0.50
Text output/1M tok$2.00
OpenRouter$0.50$2.001
Fireworks AI$0.55$2.191
Novita$0.55$2.201
Baseten$0.60$2.201
Together AI$0.60$2.201
VercelVercel reseller quote$0.60$2.201
Zai$0.60$2.201
Cerebras is dearest at $2.25 / $2.75

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
Input down 25% since first tracked
$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00Oct 18Dec 2Jan 31Aug 28$1.80$0.45

Cost calculator

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$260
estimated / month

Model IDs

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z-ai/glm-4.6deepinfra/zai-org/GLM-4.6fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/glm-4p6novita/zai-org/glm-4.6baseten/zai-org/GLM-4.6together_ai/zai-org/GLM-4.6zai/glm-4.6zai/glm-4.6cerebras/zai-glm-4.6

Frequently asked questions

GLM 4.6 pricing, context and availability

Is GLM 4.6 still available?

GLM 4.6 was deprecated on 2026-01-20, but 9 serving providers still list it.

How much does GLM 4.6 cost?

GLM 4.6 costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens from DeepInfra, and $2.00 per 1M output tokens from DeepInfra. Across 9 serving providers, input prices range from $0.50 to $2.25 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of GLM 4.6?

GLM 4.6 accepts up to 205K tokens of context and can return up to 203K output tokens.

Which providers serve GLM 4.6?

GLM 4.6 is available from 9 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. DeepInfra is currently the cheapest.

What can GLM 4.6 do?

GLM 4.6 supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.

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