Z.ai · Open weights
GLM 4.6 Turbo
Fast variant of GLM 4.6 for general chat, coding, and analysis with improved latency and strong reasoning.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.00
- Output
- $3.00
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 204.8K
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 696 tokens
- Longer than 61% of 468 models
Side by side
GLM 4.6 Turbo compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GLM 4.6 TurboZ.aiThis model | Apex Flash 1 AbliteratedZ.aiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Z.ai |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Oct 2, 2025 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 204.8K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 131.07KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 696 tokens | 629 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.00 | $0.15Best |
| Output | $3.00 | $0.50Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.075 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 13.2 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 5.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 92.7% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 14.9 | — |
| Math Index | 44.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GLM 4.6 Turbo
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated
Intelligence Index
- GLM 4.6 Turbo14.9
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated—
GLM 4.6 Turbo: Better than 37% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 44.3
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 26.3%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 5.5%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 63.2%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 78.4%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 36.7%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 56.1%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 44.3%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 28.8%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 76.9%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 4.6 Turbo: 26.3%
- Apex Flash 1 Abliterated: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/GLM-4.6-turbo",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/GLM-4.6-turbo",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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