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| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 4.6claude-sonnet-4-6 | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $2.40 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Output | $12.00 / 1M | $4.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $3.00 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $4.80 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.24 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, delivering frontier-level performance across coding, agent workflows, and professional knowledge tasks. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, and end-to-end project execution, supported by strong contextual understanding and persistent task handling. Beyond engineering tasks, Sonnet 4.6 produces polished documents and analyses while demonstrating reliable computer-use capabilities for web QA, workflow automation, and structured productivity workflows, making it well suited for both development and professional applications. | GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution. |