Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.6 leads with 23.0% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 59.4K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. Qwen3 235B A22B is $2.40 cheaper per million tokens. GLM-4.6 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Overall, GLM-4.6 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
DeepInfra
ZeroEval

Qwen3 235B A22B
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 235B A22B
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
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Novita
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