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GLM 4.6 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
GLM 4.6 wins on 2/2 benchmarks
GLM 4.6 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·GLM 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GLM 4.6
#117 by perf·#3 by attention
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
#114 by perf·#2 by attention
Best value
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
1.9x better value than GLM 4.6
GLM 4.6
46.6 pts/$
$1.09/M
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
88.5 pts/$
$0.57/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
2 benchmarks · 2 models
GLM 4.6Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
GLM 4.6 leads by +86.0
GLM 4.6
1339.4
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
1253.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 4.6 leads by +30.4
GLM 4.6
1424.1
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
1393.8
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | GLM 4.6 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding | 1339.4 | 1253.4 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1424.1 | 1393.8 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.43 | $1.75 | 205K tokens (~102 books) | $7.60 | |
| $0.15 | $1.00 | 262K tokens (~131 books) | $3.63 |