Model comparison

GLM-4.6V vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 41.3 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6V costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.3

Rank #137 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.6V scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 27.6.
  • GLM-4.6V is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $4 / $20 for GPT-5.6 Sol.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-4.6V and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
GLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)OpenAI
Noometry Index41.365.0
Released2025-12-082026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$4
Output $ / M tokens$0.90$20
Results tracked1265

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128), GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Coding13901498
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1618
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
GSO—76.5%
WeirdML—89.4%
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115), GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts13681484
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—161.66

Math Not comparable

GLM-4.6V: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1474
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149), GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Expert13711516
GPQA Diamond—93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%

Multimodal GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90), GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision11641281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141), GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English13591452
LMArena Chinese14251527
LMArena Russian13401468
LMArena French—1477
LMArena German—1476
LMArena Japanese—1471
LMArena Korean—1442
LMArena Spanish—1441

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151), GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following13521482

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143), GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query13581480

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137), GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.6VGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text13771457
LMArena Creative Writing13471448
LMArena Multi-Turn13601460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1972
EQ-Bench 4—1250

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.6V better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 41.3 on the Noometry Index. GLM-4.6V costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.6V or GPT-5.6 Sol?

GLM-4.6V is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol lists at $4 and $20.

Is GLM-4.6V or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.6V and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.6V has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.

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