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glm-4.6 benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place glm-4.6, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
Read Oct 1, 2026
#21of 85
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 64 across 2 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places glm-4.6
LiveBench
Not measured by LiveBench.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#39of 79
Score 1425. Best run: glm-4.6.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
#4of 37
Score 72.38%. Best run: GLM-4.6 (FC thinking).
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
$1.00
Vercel AI Gateway: $0.60 in, $2.20 out
Nearby
The models either side of glm-4.6
- #18GPT-5.6 Terra66
- #19grok-4-1-fast-reasoning65
- #20Claude Sonnet 4.564
- #21glm-4.664
- #22GLM 5.162
- #23GLM 5.262
- #24o3-2025-04-1662
Questions about glm-4.6
How good is glm-4.6?
glm-4.6 ranks #21 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 64 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is glm-4.6 better than Claude Sonnet 4.5?
Not on the consensus: Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 64 to glm-4.6's 64. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is glm-4.6 better than GLM 5.1?
On the consensus, yes: 64 to 62.
How much does glm-4.6 cost?
$0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens on Vercel AI Gateway, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $1.00 per million.
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