Models

ERNIE 5.1 vs GLM 5.2

Compare ERNIE 5.1 from Baidu 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.

BaiduERNIE 5.1Z.AIGLM 5.2
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ERNIE 5.1
Baidu · text → text

ERNIE 5.1 is the latest model in the Wenxin series, with comprehensive upgrades to its foundational capabilities and significant improvements in agents, knowledge, reasoning, and deep search. This upgrade uses a decoupled fully-asynchronous reinforcement learning technique to specifically address challenges encountered as large models evolve toward agent-based autonomous decision-making, such as training–inference numerical bias, low utilization of heterogeneous resources, and global issues caused by long-tail effects. It is paired with scaled agent post-training techniques to enhance model capabilities and generalization, enabling a three-step collaboration of environment, expert, and fusion that both ensures training efficiency and significantly improves the model’s stability and performance on complex tasks.

Input$0.56 /M
Output$2.54 /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$1.13 /M
Output$3.94 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

ERNIE 5.1
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$0.56
$1.13
Output /M
$2.54
$3.94
Cache read /M
$0.56
$0.28
Context length
119,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
128,000
Time to First Token
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1.1 s
Throughput
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34.2 tok/s
Modalities
text
text
Supported Parameters
thinking
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.

ernie-5.1glm-5.2

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.

ernie-5.1glm-5.2

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
ernie-5.1glm-5.2
1400144014801520
Overall
14681470
Coding
15051514
Math
14751476
Hard prompts
14881488
Instruction following
14531462
Multi-turn
14701473
Creative writing
14291450
Longer query
14661479
Chinese
15011516
English
14771479

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.

ERNIE 5.1
$71.83 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ERNIE 5.1, GLM 5.2?

ERNIE 5.1: $2.54/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?

ERNIE 5.1: 1514; GLM 5.2: 1505 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.1 accepts 119,000 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.1 and 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ERNIE 5.1 accepts text input and supports thinking; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call ERNIE 5.1 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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