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GPT-5.2 vs GLM 5.2

Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.

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GPT-5.2 scores higher, GLM 5.2 costs less — it depends on your workload.

GPT-5.2 is ahead by 1.5 points overall, and GLM 5.2 lists 3.2× cheaper per blended million tokens. Whether 1.5 points is worth that depends on how much a wrong answer costs you.

openai

GPT-5.2

Blended / 1M
$4.81
Context
400K
Released
Dec 10, 2025
Overall score
74.6
reasoningtool callingfile inputimage inputprompt caching

z-ai

GLM 5.2

Blended / 1M
$1.48
Context
1.0M
Released
Jun 16, 2026
Overall score
73.2
reasoningtool callingprompt caching

Specs and pricing

MetricGPT-5.2GLM 5.2
LiveBench overall

Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better.

74.6win73.2
Cost per point

Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability.

$0.1289$0.1260
Blended price / 1M

3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic.

$4.81$1.48win
Input price / 1M$1.75$0.966win
Output price / 1M$14.00$3.04win
Cached input / 1M

Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one.

$0.175win$0.193
Context window400K1.0Mwin
Max output tokens128K131K

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — GPT-5.2 on top, GLM 5.2 below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
50.3
51.8
Coding
76.1
79.7
Reasoning
83.2
78.6
Mathematics
93.2
89.8
Data analysis
78.2
73.7
Language
79.8
76.2
Instruction followingtoo close to call
61.8
62.3

What each one costs to run

Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.

WorkloadGPT-5.2GLM 5.2
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$1426.60/mo$419.08/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$1610.00/mo$645.84/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$1638.00/mo$582.91/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$2721.25/mo$1155.06/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$4987.50/mo$2332.20/mo
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Which should you pick?

Quality matters more than the bill

GPT-5.2

Highest overall LiveBench score of the two at 74.6.

The workload is coding or agentic work

GLM 5.2

Leads on agentic coding — 51.8 against 50.3.

You need to fit large documents in one call

GLM 5.2

Wider context window — 1.0M against 400K.

GPT-5.2 vs GLM 5.2 FAQ

Which is better, GPT-5.2 or GLM 5.2?

GPT-5.2 scores higher, GLM 5.2 costs less — it depends on your workload. GPT-5.2 is ahead by 1.5 points overall, and GLM 5.2 lists 3.2× cheaper per blended million tokens. Whether 1.5 points is worth that depends on how much a wrong answer costs you.

Is GPT-5.2 cheaper than GLM 5.2?

GLM 5.2 is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, GPT-5.2 lists at $4.81 per million tokens and GLM 5.2 at $1.48 — GLM 5.2 is 3.2× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — GPT-5.2 charges $1.75 in and $14.00 out, GLM 5.2 charges $0.966 and $3.04 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.

GPT-5.2 vs GLM 5.2: which scores higher on benchmarks?

GPT-5.2 scores 74.6 and GLM 5.2 scores 73.2 overall on LiveBench, the mean of its seven categories. That is a 1.5-point lead for GPT-5.2. Category scores differ from the overall figure — a model can lead on reasoning and trail on coding, which the per-category table above breaks out.

Which gives better value for money, GPT-5.2 or GLM 5.2?

They are close. GPT-5.2 costs $0.1289 per point of overall capability and GLM 5.2 costs $0.1260, a difference small enough that workload shape will matter more than the rate.

Does GPT-5.2 or GLM 5.2 have a bigger context window?

GLM 5.2 has the larger context window: 400K for GPT-5.2 against 1.0M for GLM 5.2. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.

Do GPT-5.2 and GLM 5.2 support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.175 per million for GPT-5.2 and $0.193 for GLM 5.2, against full input rates of $1.75 and $0.966. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.

Related comparisons

How these numbers are produced

  • Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
  • ScoresLiveBench release 2026-06-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
  • Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
  • “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.

Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.