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GLM-4.6

AI model

API mode
Chat*
Context window
202,752 tokens
Maximum output
128,000 tokens*
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

GLM-4.6 1440.1 GLM-4.6 · 95% interval 1436.2–1443.9 · 35,810 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,498.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,487.51 – 1,510.30

2721 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,448.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.53 – 1,455.80

7593 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,411.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.39 – 1,420.32

5146 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,448.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,443.51 – 1,454.24

15319 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,437.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.68 – 1,442.58

25098 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,431.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.47 – 1,444.28

2062 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,459.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.90 – 1,482.30

706 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,446.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.71 – 1,469.13

681 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,440.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.35 – 1,445.26

19440 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,444.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,438.00 – 1,451.80

8251 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,416.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.76 – 1,423.77

6901 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,408.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.29 – 1,416.11

6682 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,448.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.34 – 1,459.91

2450 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,456.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,448.20 – 1,463.92

5931 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,446.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.91 – 1,460.32

1783 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,454.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.50 – 1,468.35

1934 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,455.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.38 – 1,461.01

12601 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,415.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.61 – 1,422.47

8090 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,410.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.96 – 1,416.53

10285 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,393.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.08 – 1,422.91

373 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,401.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,376.98 – 1,426.42

617 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,422.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.88 – 1,428.97

9136 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,431.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.30 – 1,444.38

2151 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,426.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.81 – 1,435.11

5613 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,426.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.44 – 1,431.07

20455 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,440.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.17 – 1,443.94

35810 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,447.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.86 – 1,463.32

1300 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,418.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.82 – 1,427.97

3542 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,436.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.48 – 1,455.42

1016 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
GLM-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,499.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,487.77 – 1,510.56

2722 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,448.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.51 – 1,455.77

7602 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,411.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.15 – 1,420.08

5145 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,448.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,443.47 – 1,454.20

15323 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,436.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.54 – 1,442.44

25102 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,431.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.61 – 1,444.42

2063 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,459.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.50 – 1,481.93

706 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,446.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.66 – 1,469.10

681 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,440.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.20 – 1,445.11

19455 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,444.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.90 – 1,451.70

8254 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,416.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.72 – 1,423.72

6902 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,408.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.15 – 1,415.96

6679 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,447.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.20 – 1,459.78

2450 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,456.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,448.39 – 1,464.10

5930 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,446.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.95 – 1,460.37

1783 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,455.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.57 – 1,468.43

1934 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,455.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.45 – 1,461.07

12610 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,415.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.48 – 1,422.33

8091 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,410.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.81 – 1,416.38

10293 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,392.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.91 – 1,422.77

373 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,400.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.32 – 1,424.79

617 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,422.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.85 – 1,428.94

9145 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,431.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.43 – 1,444.50

2153 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,426.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.82 – 1,435.11

5615 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,426.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.33 – 1,430.96

20465 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,439.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.03 – 1,443.80

35824 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,446.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.51 – 1,462.97

1301 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,418.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.99 – 1,428.13

3546 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

GLM-4.6

1,435.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.99 – 1,454.96

1015 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
glm-4.6
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

GLM-4.6

664.6 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 356.79 B stored tensor elements · BF16/F32

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

Capabilities

Context window
202,752 tokens
Maximum input
200,000 tokens*
Maximum output
128,000 tokens*
Reasoning
Yes*
Tool calling
Yes*
Open weights
Yes
API mode
Chat*
Prompt caching
Yes*
Tool choice
Yes*
Model license
mit
Checkpoint tensor payload
664.57 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
glm4_moe

System configuration

Detailed specifications

Specifications · 12 fields
cache creation input token cost
0*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
cache read input token cost
1.1e-7*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
input cost per token
6.0e-7*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
litellm provider
zai*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
max input tokens
200,000*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
max output tokens
128,000*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
mode
chat*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
output cost per token
2.2e-6*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
supports function calling
Yes*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
supports prompt caching
Yes*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
supports reasoning
Yes*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*
supports tool choice
Yes*
Scope and conditions
native_context
provider
zai*
mode
chat*
full_native_model_id
zai/glm-4.6*
pricing_scope
Literal source field names and values retained; provider, region, cache/batch/threshold conditions and per-unit meaning must be checked. max_tokens is not automatically a context limit.*

* Provisional data