Z.ai

GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6 is an open-weight model from Z.ai, released Sep 30, 2025. It ranks #75 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1440. It costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens, with a 200K-token context window.

LMArena text1440−0 in 30 days
Rank#75/351
95% interval1436–1444
Votes35.8K
Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Released
Sep 30, 2025
Context window
200K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.55 / $2.20
Weights
Open · MIT
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
22.4K
Hugging Face likes
1.2K
GLM-4.6, LMArena text rating over time
14301438144514531460Oct 25Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26
LatestGLM-4.6 1440

The rating LMArena published at each update since Oct 3, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
Vibe Code BenchCoding3.09%107 / 115$10.85
LiveCodeBenchCoding81.04%65 / 143$0.6 / $2.2
MedQAMedicine92.22%33 / 92$0.6 / $2.2
GPQA DiamondReasoning74.50%86 / 138$0.6 / $2.2
MMLU-ProReasoning82.20%81 / 138$0.6 / $2.2
AIMEReasoning92.71%17 / 96$0.6 / $2.2

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena144075 / 35135.8K
CodingLMArena1449105 / 3467.6K
MathLMArena143298 / 3392.2K
Creative writingLMArena141279 / 3495.1K
Instruction followingLMArena1410106 / 35110.3K
Hard promptsLMArena144096 / 35119.4K
Multi-turnLMArena1427107 / 3495.6K
Long queriesLMArena1422106 / 3309.1K
ExpertLMArena1432114 / 3052.1K
Legal and governmentIndustries144869 / 3252.5K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries145564 / 3251.9K
Business and financeIndustries1416112 / 3446.9K
ChineseLanguages149953 / 3282.7K
SpanishLanguages143789 / 2491K
GermanLanguages144759 / 261681
FrenchLanguages145967 / 252706
JapaneseLanguages139387 / 236373
WebDevLMArena1341122 / 1246.8K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

Compare GLM-4.6

Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

A Tsinghua spin-out that builds the GLM family of open bilingual models. Founded 2019, based in Beijing. z.ai

Questions

Who makes GLM-4.6?

GLM-4.6 is made by Z.ai (Zhipu AI), founded 2019 and based in Beijing.

How much does GLM-4.6 cost?

$0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is GLM-4.6’s context window?

200K tokens (204,800).

How does GLM-4.6 rank?

#75 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1440 (95% interval 1436–1444) from 35,818 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is GLM-4.6 open source?

GLM-4.6 has open weights under the MIT license, downloadable from Hugging Face (zai-org/GLM-4.6).

Sources

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