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# Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Z.ai: GLM 5.2: $0.966/M in, $3.04/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GLM 5.2

Z.ai · released 2026-06-16 · mit

 $1.48 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+3.4** on the capability index and **49% cheaper** ($0.750/M against $1.48/M). What you lose:

 - 131K → 66K max output

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

The same model via **free** is 100% cheaper (free/M) — same weights, different latency.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.966 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $3.04 /M |
| Cached input | $0.193 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 52.6 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 68.8 |
| Agentic | 45.7 |
| LMArena Elo | 1465.4 max |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - website #4 of 151 1326
- codecategories #6 of 145 1331
- dataviz #7 of 142 1324
- 3d #7 of 136 1347
- uicomponent #9 of 140 1328
- fullstack #10 of 59 1269
- agenticgamedev #10 of 34 1187
- htmlslides #10 of 34 1190

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |

GLM 5.2 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agent workflows, project-level software engineering,...