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GLM 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
#154 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
2.1x better value than GLM 4.6
GLM 4.6
44.4 pts/$
$1.15/M
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
94.5 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
GLM 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 4.6 leads by +133.0
GLM 4.6
1425.8
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
1292.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1425.81292.8
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
Meta logoLlama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.40$0.40131K tokens (~66 books)$4.00