Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini offers 95.9K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. GLM-4.6 is $5.10 cheaper per million tokens. o4 mini 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
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
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o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6
o4 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
o4 mini
GLM-4.6
o4 mini
GLM-4.6
o4 mini
OpenAI