Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Max offers 66.2K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. GLM-4.6 is $1.60 cheaper per million tokens. 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.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
25 days newer
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter
GLM-4.6
Qwen3-Max
GLM-4.6
Qwen3-Max