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GLM-4.6
What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok actually say · July 2026
The verdict
GLM-4.6 appears in 1 AI-ranked category.
GPT —Claude #5Gemini —Grok —
The best open model specifically for coding-agent applications — near-Claude-Sonnet coding performance, strong long-context tool use in harnesses like Claude Code and Cline, MIT license, and cheap hosted inference; ranked on the assumption the practitioner is building developer-facing or code-generating products
Where GLM-4.6 falls short, per the models
- Claude Narrower general-purpose strength — outside coding and agentic loops its writing, multilingual, and knowledge quality trail the models above, so it is a specialist pick rather than a default
Top alternatives per the models: GLM-5.2 · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V3.2 · Kimi K2.5
Rankings are computed from what the models answer, re-polled weekly · raw reasoning shown verbatim · methodology