GLM 4.6 Original
by Z.ai (Zhipu AI)Chat
GLM-4.6, Zhipu's flagship text model with 256K context window and advanced reasoning capabilities. Direct via Z-AI (Zhipu).
- Context
- 256K tokens
- Max output
- 65,535 tokens
- Released
- 2025-12-11
- Weights
- Open
zhipuai/glm-4-6-original · also seen as z-ai/glm-4.6-original
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-12-11
- Weights
- Open
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 256,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 65,535
- Providers
- 0 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.50 in at NanoGPT, via gateway, fees not verified
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-12-11
- Knowledge cutoff
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperatureunknown
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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Heads up: prices are indicative list rates scraped from provider pricing pages; verify with the provider before relying on them. Report incorrect data for this model