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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 4.6V

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·GLM 4.6V details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), GLM 4.6V is the cheapest — 93% less than the priciest here ($72.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6GLM 4.6V
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.300
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$0.900
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0007
Context window1M tokens131,072 tokens
Max output128k tokens32,768 tokens
Quality score88/10078/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6GLM 4.6V
1,000$9.60$0.72
10,000$96.00$7.20
100,000$960.00$72.00
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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Strong price-to-performance for production agents: reliable tool use, structured JSON output, and solid coding ability at roughly a fifth of Opus's cost.

Can still misstep on the hardest multi-step reasoning chains where Opus would succeed — budget for occasional escalation to a flagship model.

GLM 4.6V

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