GLM 4.6 is Z.ai's foundation model with a 198K-token context window released in late 2025.
- Strengths
- Handles extended documents and multi-turn conversations across a broad range of reasoning and generation tasks.
- Best for
- Applications requiring moderate context length and general-purpose language understanding, positioned between the lighter GLM 4.5 models and the more capable GLM 5 series.
- Limitations
- Superseded by newer foundation models in the GLM 5 series that offer larger context windows and improved capabilities.
Input / 1M
$0.43
Output / 1M
$1.75
Cached input / 1M
$0.08
Context window
198K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in decreased 14.0% out decreased 12.5%
- 90d
- in decreased 0.0% out increased 0.6%
- 1y
- in decreased 0.0% out increased 0.6%
- Since launch
- in decreased 0.0% out increased 0.6%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | $0.43 | $1.75 | $0.08 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 8 Sep 2026 | $0.55 | $2.20 | $0.11 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 7 Sep 2026 | $0.43 | $1.75 | $0.08 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 6 Sep 2026 | $0.55 | $2.20 | $0.11 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Sep 2026 | $0.55 | $2.20 | $0.11 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Aug 2026 | $0.43 | $1.75 | $0.08 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 17 Aug 2026 | $0.5 | $2.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 14 Aug 2026 | $0.55 | $2.20 | $0.11 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 13 Aug 2026 | $0.5 | $2.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Aug 2026 | $0.55 | $2.20 | $0.11 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Aug 2026 | $0.5 | $2.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Jul 2026 | $0.5 | $2.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.43 | $1.75 | $0.08 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.43 | $1.74 | $0.08 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |