Models

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking vs GLM 5.2

Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking from Anthropic and GLM 5.2 from Z.AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.5 ThinkingZ.AIGLM 5.2
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Sonnet 4.5 does not enable reasoning mode by default. To access its deep reasoning capabilities, users would typically need to call the native Claude API. To make this capability available through an OpenAI-compatible interface, the claude-sonnet-4-5-think model is provided with reasoning mode pre-enabled and a default 64k-token context window, allowing it to be called directly via the OpenAI unified API. Claude Sonnet 4.5 Think is a reasoning-focused variant of Claude Sonnet 4.5 designed for advanced tasks that require rigorous reasoning, complex decision-making, and long-chain analysis; aside from its enhanced reasoning mechanism, all other capabilities remain consistent with the standard Claude Sonnet 4.5 model, making it well suited for complex problem decomposition, multi-step planning, and logic-intensive analysis.

Input$3.30 /M
Output$16.50 /M
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GLM 5.2
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.

Input$1.13 /M
Output$3.94 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$3.30
$1.13
Output /M
$16.50
$3.94
Cache read /M
$3.30
$0.28
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
128,000
Time to First Token
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1.0 s
Throughput
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36.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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June 16, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-sonnet-4-5-thinkglm-5.2
1420146015001540
Overall
14551470
Coding
15051520
Math
14551475
Hard prompts
14871488
Instruction following
14621465
Multi-turn
14701470
Creative writing
14471450
Longer query
14791486
Chinese
14891516
English
14721477
WebDev Arena
claude-sonnet-4-5-thinkglm-5.2
1360144015201600
Overall
13881582
React
13821594
HTML
13961537
Gaming
16171617
Simulations
16061606
Data analytics
15421542

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

GLM 5.2
$127 /mo
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
$446 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking, GLM 5.2?

GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking: $16.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking: 1520; GLM 5.2: 1505 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking accepts 1,000,000 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking and 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking and GLM 5.2 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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