Z.ai: GLM 4.6V

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionDeep thinkingTool use

Z.ai: GLM 4.6V is a multimodal model for multimodal reasoning and analysis. It combines multimodal input handling and deep reasoning and planning with a 131K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for multimodal reasoning and analysis when quality, speed, and cost matters. It is a practical choice for teams that need reliable output, flexible deployment, and room to scale.

Input

$0.30/1M

Output

$0.90/1M

Cached

$0.11/1M

Batch

$0.30/1M

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Technical specifications

GLM 4.6V at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

131,072

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

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Released

Dec 2025

Training cutoff

Aug 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GLM 4.6V

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GLM 4.6V costs roughly $59 per month. Input is $0.30 /1M tokens and output is $0.90 /1M tokens.
GLM 4.6V has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GLM 4.6V supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GLM 4.6V was released in December 2025, with training data cut off around August 2025.
Models in a similar class include GLM 4.5V, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Grok 3 Mini. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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