Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs GLM 4.6V

Mistral Small 3.1 24B at $0.404 in and $0.638 out and GLM 4.6V at $0.345 in and $1.03 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Mistral AI

0.25¢

for a client proposal

$0.404 in · $0.638 out / 1M

128K 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: GLM 4.6V at $0.345 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Mistral Small 3.1 24B at $0.638 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.6V at 131K tokens — about 190 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

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

0.11¢

GLM 4.6V

0.12¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

0.25¢

GLM 4.6V

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

needs 155K ctx

GLM 4.6V

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

1.5¢

GLM 4.6V

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

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

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

GLM 4.6V

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

Pricing

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

GLM 4.6V

Input / 1M tokens

$0.404

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$0.638

$1.03

Cached input / 1M

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$0.063

Specs

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

GLM 4.6V

Provider

Mistral AI

Z.ai

Released

March 2025

December 2025

Context window

128K

131K

Max output

128K

33K

Input

Text and Images

Images, Text, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2023-10-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Mistral AI

0.11¢

for this task

72% input · 28% 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: 0.23¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,142 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.6V has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, Mistral Small 3.1 24B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.25¢.

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 →

Mistral Small 3.1 24B pricing →GLM 4.6V pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.1 24B or GLM 4.6V?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Mistral Small 3.1 24B at 0.25¢; GLM 4.6V at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.6V — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run Mistral Small 3.1 24B 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.