LLM Reference

ChatGLM-6B

Released
2023-03-13
Last refreshed
2026-05-01
Status
Researched 46d ago
Open SourceCommercial use allowed

ChatGLM-6B has tracked benchmark evidence for general LLM work with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 2k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
ChatGLM
Released
2023-03-13
Context
2k
Parameters
6.2B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
Training
Pretrained
Created by

Leading China's LLM innovation surge

Beijing, China
Founded 2018
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

ChatGLM-6B is the original open-source bilingual (Chinese-English) chat model from THUDM (Tsinghua University KEG Lab and Zhipu AI). Released March 13, 2023, it was pre-trained on approximately 1 trillion Chinese-English tokens using supervised fine-tuning and RLHF for alignment. With a 2K context window and 6.2B parameters, it was one of the first widely-accessible open-source LLMs with strong Chinese-language capabilities. Predecessor to ChatGLM2-6B and the ChatGLM3 family.

ChatGLM-6B is an open-source model in the ChatGLM family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. Headline tracked benchmarks include GAOKAO 30.8.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
GAOKAO30.8zero-shot, objective-accuracyhttps://github.com/OpenLMLab/GAOKAO-Bench

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.