Model comparison

GLM-4.6 vs o1

GLM-4.6 and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.4 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.4

Rank #135 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6 scores higher in 4 categories and o1 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GLM-4.6 leads 32.3 to 24.6.
  • GLM-4.6 is cheaper at $0.60 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • GLM-4.6 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 200K.
  • GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.6 and o1 specifications
GLM-4.6o1
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index41.440.9
Released2025-09-302024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window205K200K
Max output131K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$15
Output $ / M tokens$2.20$60
Results tracked2952

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Coding14491367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)55.4%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1340—
SciCode38.4%—
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench340.82—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-4.6 leads

GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
Terminal-Bench24.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.4%—
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Hard Prompts14401371
SimpleBench—41.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark47.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math GLM-4.6 leads

GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge o1 leads

GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Expert14311361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.6: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual GLM-4.6 leads

GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Non-English14261358
LMArena Chinese14991394
LMArena French14591344
LMArena German14471337
LMArena Japanese13931346
LMArena Korean14001396
LMArena Russian14191356
LMArena Spanish14361345

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Instruction Following14101367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Longer Query14221378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6 leads

GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6o1
LMArena Text14401366
LMArena Creative Writing14111348
LMArena Multi-Turn14271369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1411—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6 better than o1?

GLM-4.6 and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.4 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6 or o1?

GLM-4.6 is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is GLM-4.6 or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-4.6 does, with 205K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6 and o1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6 has 29 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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