Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3 VL Plus from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GLM 5.2
Qwen3 VL PlusGLM-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.
The Qwen3 series visual understanding model achieves an effective fusion of thinking and non-thinking modes. Its visual agent capabilities reach world-class levels on public test sets such as OS World. This version features comprehensive upgrades in visual coding, spatial perception, and multimodal reasoning; visual perception and recognition abilities are greatly enhanced, supporting ultra-long video understanding.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen3 VL Plus: $1.37/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.94/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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 Qwen3 VL Plus accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Plus.
Qwen3 VL Plus at 66.5 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 38.0 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; Qwen3 VL Plus accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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