Model comparison

GLM-4.6V vs Llama 4 Maverick

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.3

Rank #137 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6V scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6V leads 56.6 to 38.8.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for GLM-4.6V.

Side by side

GLM-4.6V and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Meta
Noometry Index41.330.9
Released2025-12-082025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$0.65
Results tracked1254

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Coding13901302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Hard Prompts13681281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.2
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Expert13711259
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision11641142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English13591269
LMArena Chinese14251277
LMArena Russian13401286
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Too close to call

GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following13521267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query13581280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text13771287
LMArena Creative Writing13471267
LMArena Multi-Turn13601289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6V better than Llama 4 Maverick?

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6V or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6V lists at $0.30 and $0.90.

Is GLM-4.6V or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and Llama 4 Maverick share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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