DeepSeek V3 0324 vs GLM 4.6V

DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 in and $1.29 out and GLM 4.6V at $0.345 in and $1.03 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.310 in · $1.29 out / 1M

164K context · released March 2025

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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: DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GLM 4.6V at $1.03 per million tokens.
Largest context: DeepSeek V3 0324 at 164K tokens — about 230 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

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.13¢

GLM 4.6V

0.12¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.26¢

GLM 4.6V

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

$0.05

GLM 4.6V

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

1.2¢

GLM 4.6V

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

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

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80% Input20% Output

DeepSeek V3 0324

GLM 4.6V

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Pricing

DeepSeek V3 0324

GLM 4.6V

Input / 1M tokens

$0.310

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$1.29

$1.03

Cached input / 1M

$0.155

$0.063

Specs

DeepSeek V3 0324

GLM 4.6V

Provider

DeepSeek

Z.ai

Released

March 2025

December 2025

Context window

164K

131K

Max output

66K

33K

Input

Text

Images, Text, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.13¢

for this task

49% input · 51% 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 2,022 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, DeepSeek V3 0324 has the largest context window here — 164K tokens.

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

For images or files, GLM 4.6V can read them directly; DeepSeek V3 0324 is text-only.

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 →

DeepSeek V3 0324 pricing →GLM 4.6V pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3 0324 or GLM 4.6V?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 4.6V at 0.26¢; DeepSeek V3 0324 at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

DeepSeek V3 0324 — 164K tokens, about 230 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V3 0324 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.