Models

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs GLM 5.2

Output tokens cost $16.50 per million on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2. Input tokens cost $3.30 per million on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2. Cached input tokens are billed at $3.30 per million on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2. Context lengths are 200,000 tokens on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 1,000,000 tokens on GLM 5.2. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.6s on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 1.1s on GLM 5.2. Measured output throughput is 57.3 tok/s on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 38.4 tok/s on GLM 5.2. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores 1430 and GLM 5.2 scores 1505.

AnthropicClaude 3.7 SonnetZ.AIGLM 5.2
Anthropic logo
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic · text, image → text

Support for the thinking parameter through the original Claude SDK.

Input$3.30 /M
Output$16.50 /M
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

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$3.30
$1.13
Output /M
$16.50
$3.94
Cache read /M
$3.30
$0.28
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
128,000
Time to First Token
0.6 s
1.1 s
Throughput
57.3 tok/s
38.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
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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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
claude-3-7-sonnetglm-5.2
1340140014601520
Overall
13711470
Coding
14301505
Math
13621475
Hard prompts
13981488
Instruction following
13841462
Multi-turn
13961470
Creative writing
13761450
Longer query
14101479
Chinese
13811516
English
13851477

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.

GLM 5.2
$127 /mo
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$446 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GLM 5.2?

GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Claude 3.7 Sonnet: $16.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

GLM 5.2: 1505; Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 1430 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet accepts 200,000 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet at 57.3 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 38.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude 3.7 Sonnet 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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