API PRICES
Z.ai · GLM-4.6
Provider prices, cheapest first
Z.ai · GLM-4.6 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.5, output 2 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: xy.poloapi.com, group "glm" 5.6 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 55 sites have comparable prices; 94 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.875 · median 0.91875 · highest 0.9625 · 2 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 5.6 · median 7 · highest 38.5 · 5 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.5 | 2 | 0.1 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | |
| Novita AI | 0.55 | 2.2 | 0.11 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 5.6 · median 7 · highest 38.5 (5 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 01 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm Name on site: glm-4.6 glm series [machine translation]Original: glm系列 Operator pending verification | 3.2 | 12.8 | 1.3037 | 5.6Median price ÷ this price: 1.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new Name on site: glm-4.6 glm newly launched models [machine translation]Original: glm最新上线模型 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1.6296 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | glm-new-cc Name on site: glm-4.6 glm newest models, claudecode only [machine translation]Original: glm最新模型，claudecode专用 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1.6296 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 Name on site: glm-4.6 ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Operator pending verification | 8 | 32 | 3.2593 | 14Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 5 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Enterprise top speed | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 企业极速｜一key调用全模型 Name on site: glm-4.6 ✨️Official price channel⭐️ calls official direct-connection models first l stable 24 hours l enterprise high concurrency [machine translation]Original: ✨️官方原价通道⭐️优先调用官方直连模型 l 24小时稳定 l 企业高并发 Operator pending verification | 22 | 88 | 8.963 | 38.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
Related variants · 4 rows · not ranked
These are special editions of the model (thinking, max, search, batch, long context, free, etc.). They are priced differently from the base model, so they are listed separately and not ranked. Names that only add an effort level such as low, high or nothinking are compared with the base model.
- glm-4.6-thinking (-thinking · thinking edition): 4 rows
- xinsuanai.com · default · glm-4.6-thinking · Input 2 / Output 8 USD credits / 1M
- xinsuanai.com · vip · glm-4.6-thinking · Input 6 / Output 24 USD credits / 1M
- xinsuanai.com · svip · glm-4.6-thinking · Input 8 / Output 32 USD credits / 1M
- xinsuanai.com · Official relay Claude [machine translation]Group on site: 官转克劳德 · glm-4.6-thinking · Input 20 / Output 80 USD credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 216 recorded prices; 115 can be compared directly (109 ranked, 6 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 68, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8, display unit not confirmed 7, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 6, billed per request or another unit 5, ratio looks unset 5
5 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for Z.ai · GLM-4.6?
xy.poloapi.com, group "glm", 5.6 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 55 sites have comparable prices.
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