Models / Compare /Kimi K2.6 vs GLM 5.1
Head to head
Kimi K2.6 vs GLM 5.1
Compared on live catalog data — pricing synced daily, benchmark scores with provenance.
The short version
- Kimi K2.6 is cheaper to run hosted: $2.48/M output vs $3.04/M for GLM 5.1 (1.2× difference at the cheapest tracked provider).
- Kimi K2.6 takes 262K tokens of context vs 205K for GLM 5.1.
- Kimi K2.6 has downloadable weights (OPEN*) so you can self-host it; we hold no downloadable copy of GLM 5.1, so it runs through a provider's API.
- GLM 5.1 scores 0.0044 on Arena Agent (IPS) vs -0.0109 for Kimi K2.6.
- GLM 5.1 scores 1518.4089 on Arena Coding vs 1514.8204 for Kimi K2.6.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Moonshot AI | Z.AI |
| Parameters | 1.1T / 32B | 754B |
| 262K | 205K | |
| Weights | OPEN* | OPEN |
| License | Custom licence | MIT License |
| Modality | text+image->text | text->text |
| Released | Apr 14, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 |
| 667.5 GBest | 475.3 GBest | |
| Cheapest hosted | $0.59 / $2.48 per 1M (OpenRouter) | $0.97 / $3.04 per 1M (OpenRouter) |
| Tracked providers | 26 | 23 |
Kimi K2.6 — our take
Kimi K2.6 is a large mixture-of-experts model from Moonshot AI that accepts text and images and handles up to 262,144 tokens in a single request. It is the strongest coder in our measured set, with a coding score well above its general chat rating, though its creative writing lags behind both.
full breakdown →GLM 5.1 — our take
GLM 5.1 is a large downloadable text model from Z.AI with a permissive MIT licence and a 204,800-token request limit. Its strongest measured skill is coding, though creative writing lags well behind, and no active-parameter count is disclosed.
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