Output tokens cost $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2 and $2.00 per million on GPT 5 Mini. Input tokens cost $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.25 per million on GPT 5 Mini. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.03 per million on GPT 5 Mini. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 400,000 tokens on GPT 5 Mini. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.1s on GLM 5.2 and 3.1s on GPT 5 Mini. Measured output throughput is 39.2 tok/s on GLM 5.2 and 90.2 tok/s on GPT 5 Mini. On the LMArena coding leaderboard GLM 5.2 scores 1505 and GPT 5 Mini scores 1430.
GLM 5.2
GPT 5 MiniGLM-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.
GPT-5 mini is a faster, more cost-efficient version of GPT-5. It's great for well-defined tasks and precise prompts.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
GPT 5 Mini: $2.00/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.94/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1505; GPT 5 Mini: 1430 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GLM 5.2: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and GPT 5 Mini accepts 400,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 128,000 tokens on GPT 5 Mini.
GPT 5 Mini at 90.2 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 39.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; GPT 5 Mini accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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