Models

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 vs GLM 5.2

Output tokens cost $0.40 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2. Input tokens cost $0.10 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.01 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2. Context lengths are 1,048,576 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 1,000,000 tokens on GLM 5.2. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.3s on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 1.2s on GLM 5.2. Measured output throughput is 147.7 tok/s on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 41.4 tok/s on GLM 5.2. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 scores 1424 and GLM 5.2 scores 1505.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

gemini-2.5-flash-lite latest preview version

Input$0.10 /M
Output$0.40 /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.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$0.10
$1.13
Output /M
$0.40
$3.94
Cache read /M
$0.01
$0.28
Context length
1,048,576
1,000,000
Max output
65,536
128,000
Time to First Token
0.3 s
1.2 s
Throughput
147.7 tok/s
41.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
text
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction 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
gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025glm-5.2
13801420146015001540
Overall
14111470
Coding
14241505
Math
14061475
Hard prompts
14201488
Instruction following
14021462
Multi-turn
14031470
Creative writing
13971450
Longer query
14191479
Chinese
14451516
English
14121477

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.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
$12.00 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025, GLM 5.2?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025: $0.40/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; Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025: 1424 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025: 0.3s 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?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 accepts 1,048,576 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 at 147.7 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 41.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports 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 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 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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