Noometry

Model comparison

GLM-4.6V vs GPT-4.1 mini

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

40.9

Rank #133 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6V scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.6V leads 26.5 to 10.9.
  • GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index40.933.5
Released2025-12-082025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output33K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$1.60
Results tracked1247

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding13901367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts13681349
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
LMArena Math—1343
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert13721338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal GPT-4.1 mini leads

GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision11641181

Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English13591318
LMArena Chinese14261329
LMArena Russian13411324
LMArena French—1357
LMArena German—1349
LMArena Japanese—1291
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Spanish—1319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following13511332
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query13581344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads

GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)

BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text13771341
LMArena Creative Writing13471300
LMArena Multi-Turn13591354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6V better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6V or GPT-4.1 mini?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is GLM-4.6V or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and GPT-4.1 mini share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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