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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GLM-4.6
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. GLM-4.6 is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family that balances response quality and efficiency for coding, agentic tasks, and analytical work. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4.5 targets use cases that require a balance of throughput and reasoning depth, including code generation, data analysis, and multi-step agentic pipelines.
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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.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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GLM-4.6
Input:$0.20
Output:$0.20($17.60 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
3 providers
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
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GLM-4.6
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:3
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GLM-4.6
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1