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GLM 5.2 vs Qwen Max

Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen 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.

Z.AIGLM 5.2QwenQwen Max
Z.AI logo
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$1.1268 /M
Output$3.9438 /M
Cache read$0.2817 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen Max
Qwen · → text

Input$0.38 /M
Output$1.52 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

GLM 5.2
Qwen Max
Input /M
$1.1268
$0.38
Output /M
$3.9438
$1.52
Cache read /M
$0.2817
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Context length
1,000,000
0
Max output
131,072
0
Time to First Token
0.7 s
0.5 s
Throughput
37.0 tok/s
6.1 tok/s
Modalities
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 16, 2026
April 3, 2024

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-5.2qwen-max
1260134014201500
Overall
13181472
Coding
13531509
Math
12911476
Hard prompts
13191492
Instruction following
13021465
Multi-turn
13061469
Creative writing
12851451
Longer query
13261482
Chinese
13101517
English
13281480

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.

Qwen Max
$45.60 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5.2, Qwen Max?

Qwen Max: $1.52/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.9438/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

GLM 5.2: 1509; Qwen Max: 1353 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen Max: 0.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GLM 5.2 at 37.0 tok/s and Qwen Max at 6.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call GLM 5.2 and Qwen 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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