GLM-5.2 API Pricing & Cost Calculator
GLM-5.2 is the value workhorse of the Chinese frontier labs. Excellent output pricing ($4.40 per million) and a real 1M context window make it a strong pick for high-volume agentic and document workloads.
GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's (Zhipu) frontier model, offering a 1-million-token context window at prices competitive with Gemini 3.6 Flash and below most US frontier peers.
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Cost Comparison
Based on 100,000 input tokens (50% cached), 5,000 output tokens, and 100 requests.
How this is calculated
GLM-5.2 is priced at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens on Z.ai's official list, with an ~81% prompt caching discount ($0.26 per million cached reads). That puts it cheaper than Gemini 3.6 Flash ($1.50/$7.50) on both axes and below GPT-5.6 Terra's list price on input.
Verdict
GLM-5.2 is the value workhorse of the Chinese frontier labs. Excellent output pricing ($4.40 per million) and a real 1M context window make it a strong pick for high-volume agentic and document workloads.
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