GLM 4.6V API Pricing Calculator & Benchmarks

GLM-4.6V is Z.aiโ€™s open-weight multimodal model for advanced visual reasoning, document understanding, video analysis, native tool calling, and intelligent visual agents.

GLM 4.6V, released 8 December 2025, is a video-generation model from Z.ai. It generates text from text, image, video and file input. Step-by-step reasoning is supported. It costs $0.30 per million input tokens through Z.ai.

Last updated Oct 15, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Dec 8, 2025
Context Length
128,000
Max Output
32,768
Modalities
Text Image Video File → Text
Capabilities
Tool use Open weights

Where is GLM 4.6V a perfect fit?

GLM-4.6V combines image, video, and text understanding with 128K context and native multimodal function calling, enabling document analysis, visual search, screenshot-to-code workflows, and multimodal agents. It is a perfect fit for:
- Complex image understanding and visual question answering
- Long-document analysis, including charts, tables, and figures
- Video summarization and temporal-event analysis
- Visual web search and multimodal retrieval
- Screenshot-to-HTML/CSS generation
- GUI agents and visual interaction workflows
- Financial report and presentation analysis
- Multimodal research assistants
- Tool-using agents that need to interpret visual results
- Mixed text-and-image content creation

Z.ai particularly emphasizes native multimodal tool calling, which allows images, screenshots, and document pages to be supplied directly to tools and enables the model to interpret visual tool results.

Quick Model Estimate

(USD 0.3000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 0.9000 per 1M tokens)

Your GLM 4.6V Cost Estimate

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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens

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๐Ÿ“ค Output (1000 ร— $0.900000) โ€”

Cost Breakdown

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Pricing

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Z.ai LogoZ.aiTextStandard$0.3000$0.9000$0.0500128,000 tokensโ†’

Benchmarks

Scores from standardized evaluations by Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Higher is better โ€” the indices summarize overall ability, while the detailed scores break down performance on individual benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis

Higher is better ยท benchmarked by Artificial Analysis
Index scores by variant
Detailed scores
11.2
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence across reasoning, knowledge & math evals
Better than 7% of 29 models
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Coding Index
Coding ability across software-engineering evals
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Agentic Index
Tool use & multi-step agent task performance
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond 71.9%

Graduate-level questions in biology, chemistry & physics

Humanity's Last Exam 9.6%

Expert-level questions across many academic domains

IFBench 30.1%

Precise following of detailed instructions

ฯ„ยฒ-Bench Telecom 31.6%

Tool-using agent tasks in a telecom support setting

CritPt 0%

Unpublished physics research reasoning problems

AA-LCR 48.7%

Long-context reasoning across large inputs

Coding
Terminal-Bench Hard 14.4%

Complex command-line and terminal workflows

Knowledge
Omniscience Accuracy 16.2%

Breadth of factual knowledge across domains

Omniscience Non-Hallucination 48.5%

How reliably the model avoids fabricated answers

All variants
Variant GPQA Diamond Humanity's Last Exam IFBench ฯ„ยฒ-Bench Telecom AA-LCR Terminal-Bench Hard CritPt Omniscience Accuracy Omniscience Non-Hallucination
GLM-4.6V (Reasoning) 71.9% 9.6% 30.1% 31.6% 48.7% 14.4% 0% 16.2% 48.5%
GLM-4.6V (Non-reasoning) 56.6% 3.7% 27.9% 30.7% 17% 3% 0% 17.4% 33.4%

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FAQs about GLM 4.6V

How much does GLM 4.6V cost per 1M tokens?

GLM 4.6V costs $0.30 per million input tokens, and $0.90 per million output tokens.

What does a typical workload cost with GLM 4.6V?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each โ€” 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total โ€” costs $1.05 with GLM 4.6V at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use GLM 4.6V?

GLM 4.6V is available through Z.ai, from $0.30 per million input tokens.

What is GLM 4.6V's context window?

GLM 4.6V has a context window of 128,000 tokens, and returns up to 32,768 tokens in a single response.

What input types does GLM 4.6V support?

GLM 4.6V accepts text, image, video and file input, and returns text.