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GLM 5.2 Fast Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare GLM 5.2 Fast Preview from Z.AI and Qwen3.8 Max 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.

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GLM 5.2 Fast Preview
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-5.2-Fast-Preview is the high-speed version of Zhipu AI’s flagship model GLM-5.2, supporting a 1M ultra-long context. The model’s capabilities are aligned with the GLM-5.2 standard version, offering logical reasoning, long-text understanding, and code generation. Through inference acceleration optimizations, output TPS can reach 1.5–2× that of the GLM-5.2 standard version, significantly improving output speed. It is suitable for scenarios sensitive to output speed, such as real-time dialogue, multi-turn Agent calls, and streaming code generation.

Input$2.254 /M
Output$7.889 /M
Cache read$0.5635 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

GLM 5.2 Fast Preview
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$2.254
$1.69
Output /M
$7.889
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.5635
$0.169
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
131,072
131,072
Time to First Token
2.0 s
12.5 s
Throughput
37.8 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 16, 2026
August 3, 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
glm-5.2-fast-previewqwen3.8-max
146014801500
Overall
14761482
WebDev Arena
glm-5.2-fast-previewqwen3.8-max
1580162016601700
Overall
16041672

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.

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
GLM 5.2 Fast Preview
$254 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5.2 Fast Preview, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; GLM 5.2 Fast Preview: $7.889/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

GLM 5.2 Fast Preview: 2.0s 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?

GLM 5.2 Fast Preview accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,072 tokens on GLM 5.2 Fast Preview and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GLM 5.2 Fast Preview at 37.8 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

GLM 5.2 Fast Preview accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call GLM 5.2 Fast Preview and Qwen3.8 Max 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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