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GLM 4.6 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GLM 4.6 from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

Z.AIGLM 4.6QwenQwen3.8 Max
Z.AI logo
GLM 4.6
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-4.6 is Zhipu’s latest flagship model (total parameters 355B, activation parameters 32B), comprehensively surpassing GLM-4.5. Its coding capability is aligned with Claude Sonnet 4, making it a top domestic coding model; the context window has been expanded from 128K to 200K, better suited for long code and agent tasks; inference capabilities have been significantly enhanced and support tool invocation during processing; improvements have been made in tool calling, search agents, writing style, role play, and multilingual translation. The model is named glm-4.6 and is provided by three vendors, with calls prioritized to the Sophnet platform.

Input$0.274 /M
Output$1.0959 /M
Cache read$0.0548 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GLM 4.6
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.274
$1.69
Output /M
$1.0959
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.0548
$0.169
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
131,072
131,072
Time to First Token
1.7 s
12.5 s
Throughput
34.4 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
September 30, 2025
August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

glm-4.6qwen3.8-max

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
glm-4.6qwen3.8-max
1380142014601500
Overall
14251482
Coding
14591459
Math
14211421
Hard prompts
14421442
Instruction following
14151415
Multi-turn
14221422
Creative writing
14031403
Longer query
14331433
Chinese
14821482
English
14371437
WebDev Arena
glm-4.6qwen3.8-max
1340144015401640
Overall
13551672
HTML
13631363

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

GLM 4.6
$32.88 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 4.6, Qwen3.8 Max?

GLM 4.6: $1.0959/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GLM 4.6: 1.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

GLM 4.6 accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on GLM 4.6 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GLM 4.6 at 34.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GLM 4.6 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GLM 4.6 and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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