Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. GLM-4.6 offers 60.6K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $1.80 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6 was introduced as an enhanced iteration of the GLM-4 series, designed to provide improved capabilities in bilingual language understanding and generation. Built to incorporate refinements to the GLM architecture, it represents continued advancement in Zhipu AI's model development.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
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
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.6

Grok-3 Mini
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
DeepInfra
ZeroEval

Grok-3 Mini
GLM-4.6

Grok-3 Mini
GLM-4.6

Grok-3 Mini
xAI