Models

GLM 5.2 vs Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22

Output tokens cost $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.21 per million on Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22. Input tokens cost $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.02 per million on Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.02 per million on Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 254,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22. On the LMArena coding leaderboard GLM 5.2 scores 1505 and Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22 scores 1466.

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Z.AI logo
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
Qwen logo
Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22
Qwen · text, image, video → text

The Qwen3 series of compact visual-understanding models achieves an effective fusion of thinking mode and non-thinking mode, outperforming the open-source Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B with faster response speeds. It comprehensively upgrades image and video understanding, supporting ultra-long contexts such as long videos and long documents, spatial awareness, and universal object recognition; it also possesses visual 2D/3D localization capabilities and is capable of handling complex real-world tasks.

Input$0.02 /M
Output$0.21 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

GLM 5.2
Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22
Input /M
$1.13
$0.02
Output /M
$3.94
$0.21
Cache read /M
$0.28
$0.02
Context length
1,000,000
254,000
Max output
128,000
32,000
Time to First Token
0.6 s
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Throughput
45.1 tok/s
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Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 16, 2026
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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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Tokens / day

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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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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
glm-5.2qwen3-vl-flash-2026-01-22
1340140014601520
Overall
14151470
Coding
14661505
Math
14111475
Hard prompts
14401488
Instruction following
14141462
Multi-turn
14261470
Creative writing
13621450
Longer query
14251479
Chinese
14551516
English
14271477

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.

Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22
$4.33 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5.2, Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22?

Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22: $0.21/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; Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22 accepts 254,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22 accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call GLM 5.2 and Qwen3 VL Flash 2026 01-22 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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