Models

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp vs GLM 5.2

Compare ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp from Baidu 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.

BaiduERNIE 5.0 Thinking ExpZ.AIGLM 5.2
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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp
Baidu · text, image → text

ERNIE 5.0 is the next-generation natively multimodal foundation model in the ERNIE family. Built on a unified multimodal architecture, it jointly learns from text, images, audio, and video to deliver broad multimodal capabilities. ERNIE 5.0 features significantly upgraded core capabilities and shows strong performance across benchmarks, with notable gains in multimodal understanding, instruction following, creative writing, factual accuracy, and agent planning with tool use.

Input$0.82 /M
Output$3.29 /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.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$0.82
$1.13
Output /M
$3.29
$3.94
Cache read /M
$0.82
$0.28
Context length
119,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
128,000
Time to First Token
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1.1 s
Throughput
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33.7 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
text
Supported Parameters
thinking
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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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
ernie-5.0-thinking-expglm-5.2
1400144014801520
Overall
14471470
Coding
14911505
Math
14381475
Hard prompts
14651488
Instruction following
14271462
Multi-turn
14411470
Creative writing
14231450
Longer query
14401479
Chinese
14961516
English
14511477

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.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp
$98.63 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp, GLM 5.2?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp: $3.29/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.94/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

GLM 5.2: 1505; ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp: 1491 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp accepts 119,000 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp and 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp accepts text and image input and supports thinking; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Exp 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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