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GLM 4.6V Original
GLM-4.6V scales its context window to 128k tokens in training, and achieves SoTA performance in visual understanding among models of similar parameter scales. Integrates native Function Calling capabilities, bridging 'visual perception' and 'executable action' for multimodal agents. Direct via Z-AI (Zhipu).
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.60
- Output
- $0.90
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 24K
- Average output (7 days)
- 258 tokens
- Longer than 27% of 468 models
Side by side
GLM 4.6V Original compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GLM 4.6V OriginalZ.aiThis model | GLM 4.7 Original ThinkingZ.aiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Z.ai |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 200KBest |
| Max output | 24K | 65.54KBest |
| Average output | 258 tokens | 1.9K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.60 | $0.40Best |
| Output | $0.90Best | $1.93 |
| Cache read | — | $0.0801 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 38.8 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.3 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 8.4 | 22.2Best |
| Coding Index | — | 45.3 |
| Math Index | 26.3 | 95.0Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GLM 4.6V Original
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking
Intelligence Index
- GLM 4.6V Original8.4
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking22.2
GLM 4.6V Original: Better than 13% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GLM 4.6V Original: —
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 45.3
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GLM 4.6V Original: 26.3
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 95.0Top
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GLM 4.6V Original: —
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 1,013 Elo
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 4.6V Original: 17.0%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 71.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 4.6V Original: 3.7%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 27.4%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 4.6V Original: 56.6%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 85.9%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GLM 4.6V Original: 75.2%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 85.6%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GLM 4.6V Original: 27.9%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 67.9%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GLM 4.6V Original: 41.1%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 89.4%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GLM 4.6V Original: 26.3%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 95.0%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GLM 4.6V Original: 3.0%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 31.8%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GLM 4.6V Original: 30.7%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 95.9%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 4.6V Original: 17.0%
- GLM 4.7 Original Thinking: 71.0%Top
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-4.6v-original",
"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-4.6v-original",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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