Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GLM 5.2
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309GLM-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 4.20 is our newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering consistently precise and truthful responses.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309: 1516; GLM 5.2: 1505 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GLM 5.2: 1.4s 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 4.20 Multi Agent 0309 accepts 2,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 2,000,000 tokens on Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309.
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309 at 42.9 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 35.7 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 4.20 Multi Agent 0309 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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