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GLM 5.2 vs Qwen Plus

Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen Plus 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 Plus
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 Plus
Qwen · → text

Input$0.1126 /M
Output$1.126 /M
Cache read$0.0225 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

GLM 5.2
Qwen Plus
Input /M
$1.1268
$0.1126
Output /M
$3.9438
$1.126
Cache read /M
$0.2817
$0.0225
Context length
1,000,000
0
Max output
131,072
0
Time to First Token
0.7 s
0.7 s
Throughput
37.0 tok/s
58.5 tok/s
Modalities
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 16, 2026
January 25, 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.

glm-5.2qwen-plus

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-plus
13001360142014801540
Overall
13461472
Coding
13801509
Math
13241476
Hard prompts
13531492
Instruction following
13321465
Multi-turn
13531469
Creative writing
13171451
Longer query
13621482
Chinese
13751517
English
13571480

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 Plus
$23.65 /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 Plus?

Qwen Plus: $1.126/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 Plus: 1380 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

GLM 5.2: 0.7s 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?

Qwen Plus at 58.5 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 37.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call GLM 5.2 and Qwen Plus 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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