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GLM 4.6V
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. Quantized at FP8.
- Vision
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $0.90
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 24K
- Average output (7 days)
- 139 tokens
- Longer than 14% of 468 models
Side by side
GLM 4.6V compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GLM 4.6VZ.aiThis model | Qwen 3 235b A22BQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Dec 11, 2025 | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 24KBest | 16.38K |
| Average output | 139 tokens | 616 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.30 | $0.0875Best |
| Output | $0.90 | $0.35Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.0175 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 99.7%Best | 91.4% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 8.4Best | 8.3 |
| Math Index | 26.3Best | 23.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GLM 4.6V
- Qwen 3 235b A22B
Intelligence Index
- GLM 4.6V8.4
- Qwen 3 235b A22B8.3
GLM 4.6V: Better than 13% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GLM 4.6V: 26.3Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 4.6V: 17.0%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 4.6V: 3.7%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 4.2%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 4.6V: 56.6%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 61.3%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GLM 4.6V: 75.2%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 76.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GLM 4.6V: 27.9%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 36.6%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GLM 4.6V: 41.1%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 34.3%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GLM 4.6V: 26.3%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GLM 4.6V: —
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 32.7%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GLM 4.6V: —
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 90.2%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GLM 4.6V: 3.0%
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 6.1%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GLM 4.6V: 30.7%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 27.2%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 4.6V: 17.0%Top
- Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 28.4%
- Request success (24h)
- 99.7%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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