Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Union Alpha (free) from Stealth 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
Union Alpha (free)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.
Developed by Stealth, Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows. It delivers frontier-level performance across a broad range of general-purpose tasks. Featuring a massive 262,144 token context window, this model is highly capable of handling extensive and complex tasks.
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GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and Union Alpha (free) accepts 262,144 input tokens.
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Union Alpha (free) accepts text and image input.
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