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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
#117 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
#216 by perf·#18 by attention
QUIET
Best value
1.9x better value than GLM 4.6
GLM 4.6
46.6 pts/$
$1.09/M
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
90.7 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
GLM 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 4.6 leads by +130.8
GLM 4.6
1424.1
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
1293.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1424.11293.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 4.6$0.43$1.75205K tokens (~102 books)$7.60
Meta logoLlama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.40$0.40131K tokens (~66 books)$4.00