Benchmark
Artificial Analysis's Elo-scored adaptation of OpenAI's GDPval, ranking AI models on real-world, computer-based knowledge-work tasks across many occupations.
Artificial Analysis priced the new model at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and the threefold token cut it measured in the Codex agent harness covers that increase where the roughly 10% cut on its intelligence suite does not.
Reality
Z.ai says the model runs at a tenth the cost of its last one. The comparison an operator needs is against the API invoice they already pay, and the release does not make it.
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Artificial Analysis' AA-Briefcase grades deliverables built from four multi-week projects, but each task starts with no memory of the model's own earlier submissions. Continuity stays unmeasured.
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Artificial Analysis puts Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at $2/$6 per million tokens. The same pages record 48 seconds to first token.
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Z.ai says every gain over GLM-5.2 came from post-training on broader production workflows. Whether that transfers to your stack is not something its private benchmark can tell you.
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Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-5.3 all chase agents that stay on task. The pricing underneath them is moving faster than the benchmarks.
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Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Pro shipped inside about 24 hours, and two of the three came with downloadable weights. The benchmarks existed to justify a cheaper invoice.
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