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GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6 · Family: GLM
Zhipu AI / Z.ai open-weight MoE model (2025): 355B/32B active, 200K context, MIT license. Strong at coding, agentic tasks and reasoning.
✓ Active✓ Public access⚖ Open weightsLLMReasoning modelTool-using model📁 GLM
Context window
200K
tokens
Parameters
355B (32B aktywnych, MoE)
parameters
Release date
30 September 2025
Access:APIDownloadHostedDeployment:☁ Cloud💻 Local

Overview

GLM-4.6 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model developed by Zhipu AI (international brand Z.ai), released on 30 September 2025. The model has about 355 billion parameters, of which about 32 billion are active per token.

Compared with GLM-4.5, the context window was expanded from 128K to 200,000 tokens and performance was improved in coding, agentic tasks and reasoning, with greater token efficiency (fewer tokens per task).

The model is text-focused — it accepts text, structured data and documents, and produces text, code and structured data. It supports extended thinking, configurable reasoning effort, tool use and prompt caching.

GLM-4.6 was released as an open-weight model under the MIT license (including on Hugging Face), allowing self-hosting and fine-tuning; it is also available via the Z.ai API and OpenRouter. It belongs to the GLM model family.

Classification
LLMReasoning modelTool-using model
Family: GLM
Access & deployment
APIDownloadHosted
CloudLocal
Weights: Open weights
Key parameters
📏 Context: 200K
🧩 Parameters: 355B (32B aktywnych, MoE)
Tools · ✓ Fine-tuning
📥 Input: text, structured data, documents

Technical specification

Context window
200K
tokens
Parameters
355B (32B aktywnych, MoE)
parameters
License
MIT (otwarte wagi)
Hardware requirements
Open weights — can be self-hosted on GPUs; requires significant resources (a ~355B-parameter MoE model).
Features:Tool useFine-tuning
Modalities
⬇ Input
textstructured_datadocuments
⬆ Output
textcodestructured_data

Capabilities and applications

Native model capabilities
Advanced reasoning
The ability to perform multi-step, structured reasoning: analysing problems, planning steps, and drawing conclusions from hypotheses. Reasoning-first models (e.g. GPT-5.1 Thinking) dedicate a portion of inference to chains of thought before responding.
Category: reasoning
Extended thinking mode
A reasoning-model variant with a larger inference budget: more thinking cycles, higher answer precision at the cost of response time. Choice between 'standard' and 'extended' thinking is left to the user (e.g. the selector in GPT-5.2 Pro).
Category: reasoning
Adaptive reasoning effort
The model decides how much 'thinking' to allocate to a given query: simple questions are answered quickly, complex problems receive more inference cycles. A GPT-5.1 feature (both Instant and Thinking) that shortens time on easy tasks and extends it for hard ones.
Category: reasoning
Multi-step reasoning
Carrying out multi-step chains of reasoning across long, complex tasks.
Category: reasoning
Mathematical reasoning
The model's ability to solve mathematical tasks requiring multi-step reasoning — equations, proofs, combinatorics, geometry, calculus and competition-level problems.
Category: reasoning
Coding
Generating, analysing and modifying code in many programming languages. Covers writing functions, debugging, refactoring, code review, and creating tests. Measured by benchmarks such as HumanEval and SWE-bench.
Category: coding
Agentic coding
Multi-hour, multi-step programming tasks performed autonomously by the model: cloning a repository, running tests, iterating on fixes, integrating with CLI tools. Characteristic of Codex variants (GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini, Codex-Max).
Category: coding
Agentic capability
The model's ability to autonomously plan and execute multi-step tasks by sequentially using tools, maintaining context, and adapting to intermediate results.
Category: planning
Tool use
The model's ability to call external functions, APIs and tools during a conversation: calculator, search engine, code editor, database. The model decides when and how to use a tool and interprets its result.
Category: planning
Long context
Support for large context windows — tens to hundreds of thousands (or millions) of input tokens. Enables analysis of entire codebases, long documents, and many parallel conversations without losing earlier information. GPT-5.1 supports 400,000 tokens.
Category: language
Prompt caching
Cost-performance optimisation: repeated prompt fragments (e.g. system prompt, long documentation) are cached server-side and cheaper in subsequent calls. Significantly reduces cost for applications with long contexts.
Category: other
Multilingual
Competence in many natural languages (from a few to over a hundred): understanding, generation, translation, and code-switching within a single conversation. Frontier models support a wide range of languages with comparable quality.
Category: language

Technical architecture

Deployment and security