Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.6 offers 59.7K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o. GLM-4.6 is $12.10 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4o supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6
GPT-4o
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
GPT-4o
GLM-4.6
GPT-4o
GLM-4.6
GPT-4o
OpenAI