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Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct vs GLM 5.2

Compare Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct from Qwen 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.

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Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen · text, image, video → text

The model provider is the Sophnet platform. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is the latest iteration in the Qwen2-VL series launched by Alibaba Cloud, representing nearly a year of innovative achievements. This model has 72 billion parameters and can understand images of various resolutions and aspect ratios. Additionally, it supports video understanding of over 20 minutes, enabling high-quality video question answering, dialogue, and content creation, along with complex reasoning and decision-making capabilities. - State-of-the-art image understanding: capable of processing images of various resolutions and aspect ratios, performing excellently across multiple visual understanding benchmarks. - Long video understanding: supports video comprehension exceeding 20 minutes, enabling high-quality video Q&A, dialogues, and content creation. - Agent operation capability: equipped with complex reasoning and decision-making abilities, it can integrate with devices such as phones and robots to perform automated operations based on visual environments and textual instructions. - Multilingual support: in addition to English and Chinese, it supports understanding text in images in multiple languages, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and more. - Supports a maximum context length of 128K tokens, offering powerful processing capabilities.

Input$2.18 /M
Output$6.54 /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$1.1268 /M
Output$3.9438 /M
Cache read$0.2817 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$2.18
$1.1268
Output /M
$6.54
$3.9438
Cache read /M
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$0.2817
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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131,072
Time to First Token
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0.7 s
Throughput
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37.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
text
Supported Parameters
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

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Cost calculator

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

GLM 5.2
$127 /mo
Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct
$229 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct, GLM 5.2?

GLM 5.2: $3.9438/M output tokens; Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct: $6.54/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct accepts text, image and video input; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Qwen2 VL 72B Instruct 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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