The Known Good Updated 9 Sep 2026 Subscribe
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ·Alibaba vs Z.ai

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus profile Z.ai: GLM 4.7 profile All comparisons
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — Alibaba
Quality
#19 of 65
79based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#238 of 341
34.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#198 of 450
$0.73
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.33 · Out $1.95
Cache hit price
#117 of 344
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−85%)
Context
#119 of 487
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 — Z.ai
Quality
#30 of 65
69based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#265 of 341
30.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#199 of 450
$0.74
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.40 · Out $1.75
Cache hit price
#162 of 344
$0.080
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#305 of 487
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus scores 79 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 scores 69 — a 10-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus. They share 2 published evaluations, with Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ahead on 2 and Z.ai: GLM 4.7 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.73 per 1M tokens for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and $0.74 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, within 10% of each other.

Throughput is 35 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and 30 for Z.ai: GLM 4.7, with time to first token at 0.9s and 2.5s. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 205k.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 4.7 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 11 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 79 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.73 $0.74
Output tok/s 35 30
Context window 1.00M 205k
Providers 1 10
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Known Good Index 79 69
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus · marker = Z.ai: GLM 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond88 / 83
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 83

Right-hand figures read Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus / Z.ai: GLM 4.7. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus leads on 2 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 4.7 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Text Arena 1,437 1,436
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,444 1,442
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Input $/1M $0.33 $0.40
Output $/1M $1.95 $1.75
Blended $/1M $0.73 $0.74
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $0.080
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Context window 1.00M 205k
Max output tokens 66k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusZ.ai: GLM 4.7
Output tokens/s 35 30
Time to first token 0.9s 2.5s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

11 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus tok/s Z.ai: GLM 4.7 blendedZ.ai: GLM 4.7 tok/s
Alibaba · first party $0.73 34
Cerebras $2.38 252
Google · first party $1.00 85
AtlasCloud $0.85 48
StreamLake $0.80 34
Phala $1.46 31
Novita $0.90 29
Z.AI · first party $1.00 29
DeepInfra $0.74 14
Mancer 2 $1.15 14
Venice $1.07 14

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →