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.
glm-5.2 vs qwen3.8-max
Output tokens cost $1.97 per million on glm-5.2 and $5.07 per million on qwen3.8-max. Input tokens cost $0.56 per million on glm-5.2 and $1.69 per million on qwen3.8-max. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.14 per million on glm-5.2 and $0.17 per million on qwen3.8-max. Discounted rates are shown where a promotion is active. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on glm-5.2 and 991,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.8s on glm-5.2 and 3.5s on qwen3.8-max. Measured output throughput is 46.9 tokens/s on glm-5.2 and 37.0 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max.
Qwen 3.8 Max(qwen3.8-max) is Alibaba Cloud’s flagship native vision-language model, built on a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supporting context windows of up to 1 million tokens. It is well suited for complex multimodal understanding, advanced reasoning, software development, agentic workflows, and long-context processing. At a similar price to Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen3.8-Max delivers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities, with overall performance comparable to today’s leading models.
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Prices are per million tokens. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: glm-5.2, qwen3.8-max?
glm-5.2: $1.97/M output tokens; qwen3.8-max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
glm-5.2: 1.8s first-token latency measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
glm-5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and qwen3.8-max accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on glm-5.2 and 128,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max.
Which one generates tokens faster?
glm-5.2 at 46.9 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max at 37.0 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
glm-5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; qwen3.8-max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call glm-5.2 and qwen3.8-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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