Z.ai

GLM 4.6

200K ctxText Tools Reasoning

Released Sep 30, 2025 · 142B tokens this week · 4 providers

Overview

Z.ai's flagship open-weight model, with a large context window and strong coding performance. It has become a popular cheap drop-in inside agentic coding harnesses. Good tool-calling discipline for the price.

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Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDER		MAX OUT		OUTPUT /M				QUANT
Novita AICheapest	200K	33K	$0.45	$1.80	720ms	70	98.60%	fp8
DeepInfra	200K	33K	$0.48	$1.91	700ms	74	98.70%	fp8
Together AI	200K	33K	$0.51	$2.05	195ms	98	99.30%	Full
Fireworks AI	200K	33K	$0.53	$2.12	580ms	110	99.40%	Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3.2$0.37

GLM 4.6$1.46

Gemini 3 Flash$1.95

GPT-5.2$10.94

Claude Sonnet 4.5$12.00

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "z-ai/glm-4.6",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'