# GLM-4.6V vs Mercury 2.5

> GLM-4.6V has enough public results to be ranked (#133); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/glm-4-6v-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for GLM-4.6V.
- Mercury 2.5 accepts more context: 260K tokens versus 128K.
- GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 133 | — |
| Context | 128K | 260K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1390 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |

## Reasoning

- GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1368 | — |

## Math

- GLM-4.6V: —
- Mercury 2.5: 22.4

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |

## Knowledge

- GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | — |

## Multimodal

- GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |

## Multilingual

- GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1359 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1341 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1351 | — |

## Long Context

- GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1358 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | GLM-4.6V | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1347 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1359 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GLM-4.6V better than Mercury 2.5?

GLM-4.6V has enough public results to be ranked (#133); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6V or Mercury 2.5?

Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6V lists at $0.30 and $0.90.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mercury 2.5 does, with 260K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and Mercury 2.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 2.