GLM 4.6V API Pricing
Zhipu · Budget · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-12. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
GLM 4.6V has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 88th cheapest of 142 Budget models. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.90 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.06
- Context window: 131K
GLM 4.6V market position
On blended price ($0.720 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 38% of Budget models: 88th cheapest of 142, tied with one other. Across every category it is cheaper than 69% of priced text models in the catalogue: 88th cheapest of 281, tied with one other.
GLM 4.6V licence, size and capabilities
GLM 4.6V is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 131K context window once costs $0.04 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $68 – $90 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $98 – $132 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $384 – $408 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $225 – $237 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $233 – $270 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $88 – $99 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $118 – $123 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $347 – $450 |
GLM 4.6V pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: Novita at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens. All of them charge within 10% of one another.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Novita (the price shown above) — bf16 | $0.30 | $0.90 |
| Z.AI (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.30 | $0.90 |
GLM 4.6V price history
GLM 4.6V has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to GLM 4.6V
- Next cheaper Budget model: Gemma 2 27B (Google) at $0.650 blended, 10% less.
- Next more expensive: MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi) at $0.740 blended, 3% more.
Common questions about GLM 4.6V pricing
- How much does GLM 4.6V cost?
- GLM 4.6V costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does GLM 4.6V offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.06/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would GLM 4.6V cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, GLM 4.6V costs about $90 at list prices.
- Has the price of GLM 4.6V changed?
- GLM 4.6V has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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