Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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.
GLM 5.2
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingGLM-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.
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that excels by outputting structured 'thinking' traces (Chain-of-Thought) by default. Designed for hard, multi-step problems, it is ideal for tasks like math proofs, code synthesis, logic puzzles, and agentic planning. Compared to other Qwen3 variants, it offers greater stability during long reasoning chains and is tuned to follow complex instructions without getting repetitive or off-task. This model is perfectly suited for agent frameworks, tool use (function calling), and benchmarks where a step-by-step breakdown is required. It leverages throughput-oriented techniques for fast generation of detailed, procedural outputs.
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $1.42/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.94/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1505; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: 1421 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: 0.5s 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 Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 256,000 tokens on Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking at 211.9 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; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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