Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.6 offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. GLM-4.6 is $2.34 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
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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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
GLM-4.6
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
GLM-4.6
DeepSeek-R1
GLM-4.6
DeepSeek-R1
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI