Output tokens cost $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2 and $16.50 per million on Grok 4. Input tokens cost $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2 and $3.30 per million on Grok 4. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.28 per million on GLM 5.2 and $0.83 per million on Grok 4. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 256,000 tokens on Grok 4. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.1s on GLM 5.2 and 2.7s on Grok 4. Measured output throughput is 37.7 tok/s on GLM 5.2 and 54.5 tok/s on Grok 4. On the LMArena coding leaderboard GLM 5.2 scores 1505 and Grok 4 scores 1436.
GLM 5.2
Grok 4GLM-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.
Grok, their latest and greatest flagship model, offers unparalleled performance in natural language, math, and reasoning – the perfect jack of all trades. The current pointing model version is grok-4-0709.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Grok 4: $16.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1505; Grok 4: 1436 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GLM 5.2: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and Grok 4 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 64,000 tokens on Grok 4.
Grok 4 at 54.5 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 37.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4 accepts text and image input and supports function calling, structured outputs and thinking.
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