Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.6 offers 56.6K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Both models have similar pricing. 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 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
7 months newer

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