API PRICES
Z.ai · GLM-4.6
Provider prices, cheapest first
All official and inference price observations
Z.ai · GLM-4.6 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: Novita AI, input 0.55, output 2.2 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: aigcbest.top, group "General LLMs [machine translation] (on site: 通用大模型)" 1.82 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-23). 43 sites have comparable prices; 82 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.9625 · median 0.9625 · highest 0.9625 · 2 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 1.82 · median 7 · highest 18.2 · 3 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 | Tariff | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | Standard | 0.55 | 2.2 | 0.11 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Full price conditions{
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}Official source | |
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | Standard | 0.55 | 2.2 | 0.11 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Full price conditions{
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"input": "0.00000055",
"output": "0.0000022"
},
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}Official source |
Older official and inference provider prices
Earlier price observations and their original conditions
Inference providers
| Provider | Tariff | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | Standard | 0.5 | 2 | 0.1 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Full price conditions{
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"sourceAmounts": {
"cacheRead": "0.0000001",
"input": "0.0000005",
"output": "0.000002"
},
"conditions": [],
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}Official source | |
| Novita AI | Standard | 0.55 | 2.2 | 0.11 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Full price conditions{
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}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 1.82 · median 7 · highest 18.2 (3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 01 | aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | General LLMs [machine translation]Group on site: 通用大模型 Name on site: glm-4.6 ⭐ Special price | can only call some Chinese models and open-source models [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 特价 | 仅可调用部分国模和开源模型 Operator pending verification | 1.04 | 4.16 | — | 1.82Median price ÷ this price: 3.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Name on site: glm-4.6 ⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | All-model dedicated line channel [machine translation]Group on site: 全模型专线渠道 Name on site: glm-4.6 👍 Highest concurrency guaranteed on all models | stable 24 hours [machine translation]Original: 👍 全模型最高并发保证 | 24小时稳定 Operator pending verification | 10.4 | 41.6 | — | 18.2Median price ÷ this price: 0.4× | 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: 93,968 prices from 854 sites (about 751 companies). 84,786 are ranked, from 838 sites (about 736 companies); 9,182 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-24.
This model has 196 recorded prices; 99 can be compared directly (94 ranked, 5 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 58, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8, new price under review; showing the previous one 8, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 6, display unit not confirmed 5, billed per request or another unit 5, ratio looks unset 5
3 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?
aigcbest.top, group "通用大模型 (General LLMs)", 1.82 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-23. 43 sites have comparable prices.
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