Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM-4.6 leads with 19.1% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 59.4K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. Qwen3 30B A3B is $2.20 cheaper per million tokens. GLM-4.6 supports multimodal inputs. 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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
5 months newer

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
DeepInfra
ZeroEval

Qwen3 30B A3B
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 30B A3B
GLM-4.6

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita