R1 0528 vs GLM 4.6

R1 0528 at $0.575 in and $2.47 out and GLM 4.6 at $0.575 in and $2.30 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

R1 0528

DeepSeek

0.49¢

for a client proposal

$0.575 in · $2.47 out / 1M

164K context · released May 2025

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GLM 4.6

Z.ai

0.47¢

for a client proposal

$0.575 in · $2.30 out / 1M

203K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.96¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Cheapest output: GLM 4.6 at $2.30 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.6 at 203K 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

R1 0528

0.24¢

GLM 4.6

0.23¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

R1 0528

0.49¢

GLM 4.6

0.47¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

R1 0528

$0.10

GLM 4.6

$0.10

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

R1 0528

2.3¢

GLM 4.6

2.2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

R1 0528

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.6

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

R1 0528

GLM 4.6

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

Pricing

R1 0528

GLM 4.6

Input / 1M tokens

$0.575

Output / 1M tokens

$2.47

$2.30

Cached input / 1M

$0.403

$0.115

Specs

R1 0528

GLM 4.6

Provider

DeepSeek

Z.ai

Released

May 2025

September 2025

Context window

164K

203K

Max output

33K

131K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

R1 0528

DeepSeek

0.24¢

for this task

48% input · 52% output

Full pricing →

GLM 4.6

Z.ai

0.23¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.47¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,066 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.6 has the largest context window here — 203K tokens.

On price, GLM 4.6 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.47¢.

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 →

R1 0528 pricing →GLM 4.6 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, R1 0528 or GLM 4.6?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 4.6 at 0.47¢; R1 0528 at 0.49¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.6 — 203K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run R1 0528 and GLM 4.6 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 0.96¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.96¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.