Claude 3 Haiku vs GLM 4.6V

Claude 3 Haiku at $0.287 in and $1.44 out and GLM 4.6V at $0.345 in and $1.03 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Claude 3 Haiku

Anthropic

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $1.44 out / 1M

200K context · released March 2024

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GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $1.03 out / 1M

131K context · released December 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.51¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Claude 3 Haiku at $0.287 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GLM 4.6V at $1.03 per million tokens.
Largest context: Claude 3 Haiku at 200K tokens — about 290 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Claude 3 Haiku

0.13¢

GLM 4.6V

0.12¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Claude 3 Haiku

0.26¢

GLM 4.6V

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Claude 3 Haiku

$0.05

GLM 4.6V

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Claude 3 Haiku

1.1¢

GLM 4.6V

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Claude 3 Haiku

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.6V

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Claude 3 Haiku

GLM 4.6V

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Claude 3 Haiku

GLM 4.6V

Input / 1M tokens

$0.287

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$1.44

$1.03

Cached input / 1M

$0.035

$0.063

Web search

1.1¢ / search

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Specs

Claude 3 Haiku

GLM 4.6V

Provider

Anthropic

Z.ai

Released

March 2024

December 2025

Context window

200K

131K

Max output

33K

Input

Text and Images

Images, Text, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2023-08-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Claude 3 Haiku

Anthropic

0.13¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

0.12¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.25¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,999 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Claude 3 Haiku has the largest context window here — 200K tokens.

On price, GLM 4.6V is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.26¢.

If you want to watch the model think, GLM 4.6V shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Claude 3 Haiku pricing →GLM 4.6V pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Claude 3 Haiku or GLM 4.6V?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 4.6V at 0.26¢; Claude 3 Haiku at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Claude 3 Haiku — 200K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run Claude 3 Haiku and GLM 4.6V side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.51¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.51¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.