The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
deepseek-r1 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ·DeepSeek vs Z.ai

deepseek-r1 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — head-to-head comparison

deepseek-r1 profile Z.ai: GLM 5.2 profile All comparisons
deepseek-r1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#25 of 61
68based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#8 of 61
91based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#147 of 316
55.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#204 of 340
$1.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.70 · Out $2.20
Cache hit price
#115 of 206
$0.13
per 1M tokens (−81%)
Context
#45 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, deepseek-r1 scores 68 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 scores 91 — a 23-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 5.2. They share 2 published evaluations, with deepseek-r1 ahead on 0 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 only, at $1.07 per 1M tokens blended.

deepseek-r1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 29 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 68 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.07
Output tok/s 55
Context window 1.05M
Providers 0 29
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 68 91
Mathematics Index 74 86
Science Index 69 97
Reasoning Index 77
Agentic Index 91
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = deepseek-r1 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.2 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond69 / 92
MATH / AIME53 / 86

Right-hand figures read deepseek-r1 / Z.ai: GLM 5.2. deepseek-r1 leads on 0 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Text Arena 1,373 1,464
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,398 1,469
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Input $/1M $0.70
Output $/1M $2.20
Blended $/1M $1.07
Cache read $/1M $0.130
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Context window 1.05M
Max output tokens 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricdeepseek-r1Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Output tokens/s 55
Time to first token 1.7s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

29 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider deepseek-r1 blendeddeepseek-r1 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.2 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.2 tok/s
Friendli $2.15 124
Fireworks $2.15 123
BaseTen $2.15 120
Ionstream $2.15 108
Wafer $2.15 108
Cloudflare $2.15 84
Ambient $1.89 78
Decart $1.52 71
DeepInfra $1.45 68
Alibaba · first party $1.27 65
Together $2.15 62
Chutes $1.93 57
Venice $2.15 56
Morph $1.85 52
GMICloud $1.42 50
CoreWeave $1.18 49
SiliconFlow $2.00 49
Z.AI · first party $2.15 49
Phala $2.15 48
Parasail $2.15 45
StreamLake $1.07 45
Baidu · first party $1.12 42
Novita $1.07 39
AtlasCloud $1.94 34
Inceptron $1.43 34
AkashML $1.18 33
Io Net $4.40 28
Sail Research $1.72 27
DigitalOcean $1.89 23

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →