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GLM 4.6 vs Grok 3 Mini Beta

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 4.6 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·GLM 4.6
Hype vs Reality
GLM 4.6
#92 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 3 Mini Beta
#30 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
3.7x better value than GLM 4.6
GLM 4.6
44.4 pts/$
$1.15/M
Grok 3 Mini Beta
162.0 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GLM 4.6Grok 3 Mini Beta
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 4.6 leads by +68.4
GLM 4.6
1425.8
Grok 3 Mini Beta
1357.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 4.6Grok 3 Mini Beta
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1425.81357.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 4.6$0.39$1.90205K tokens (~102 books)$7.67
xAI logoGrok 3 Mini Beta$0.30$0.50131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50