Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GLM-4.6

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5, released by Anthropic in October 2025, is a fast, efficient large language model from the Claude 4.5 family optimized for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking capabilities. Haiku 4.5 targets latency-sensitive applications such as real-time assistants, document classification, and lightweight agentic tasks where rapid response times are a primary requirement.

Zhipu AI

GLM-4.6, released by Zhipu AI in September 2025, is a large language model with approximately 357 billion parameters from the GLM-4 family, featuring an expanded 200K token context window. It supports strong mathematical reasoning, coding, and agentic orchestration tasks. GLM-4.6 targets enterprise-ready open-source deployments under an MIT license, with availability through Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform.