Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 812.3K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. GLM-4.6 is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 3 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.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
7 months newer

Grok 3
xAI
2025-02-17
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6
Grok 3
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
Grok 3
GLM-4.6
Grok 3
GLM-4.6
Grok 3
xAI