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Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ·Google vs Z.ai

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview profile Z.ai: GLM 5.2 profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Google
Quality
#2 of 65
97based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#45 of 338
101.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#373 of 442
$4.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $12.00
Cache hit price
#225 of 324
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#45 of 476
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#10 of 65
91based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#125 of 338
61.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#269 of 442
$1.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.97 · Out $3.04
Cache hit price
#224 of 324
$0.19
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#77 of 476
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 97 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 scores 91 — a 6-point lead for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ahead on 2 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $4.50 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and $1.48 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is about 3.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 101 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 62 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2, with time to first token at 3.3s and 1.7s. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 1.05M.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 37 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 97 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.50 $1.48
Output tok/s 101 62
Context window 1.05M 1.05M
Providers 2 35
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

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

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 97 91
Reasoning Index 99
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.2 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 86

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview / Z.ai: GLM 5.2. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads on 2 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 on 0.

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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Text Arena 1,480 1,464
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,487 1,469
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Input $/1M $2.00 $0.97
Output $/1M $12.00 $3.04
Blended $/1M $4.50 $1.48
Cache read $/1M $0.200 $0.193
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Context window 1.05M 1.05M
Max output tokens 66k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Output tokens/s 101 62
Time to first token 3.3s 1.7s
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Providers

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

37 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.2 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.2 tok/s
Google · first party $2.25 128
Google AI Studio $2.25 111
Fireworks $2.15 149
CoreWeave $1.18 125
ModelRun $3.35 108
Friendli $2.15 104
Crusoe $2.15 91
BaseTen $2.15 88
DigitalOcean $1.07 86
Makora $1.14 78
Together $2.15 71
Parasail $2.15 70
Cloudflare $2.15 64
StreamLake $0.86 64
Baidu · first party $2.15 63
Mistral · first party $2.15 60
Reka · first party $1.76 58
SiliconFlow $1.83 58
Io Net $1.33 56
Inceptron $1.69 53
Phala $1.70 51
GMICloud $1.61 46
Venice $2.15 45
Decart $1.08 42
Wafer $1.94 39
Novita $0.86 38
Z.AI · first party $2.15 38
DeepInfra $0.76 37
AtlasCloud $1.44 34
Sail Research $1.16 34
Alibaba · first party $1.48 31
Ionstream $2.15 30
AkashML $1.18 27
Relace $1.07 22
Morph $1.42 19
Ambient $0.95 13
Chutes $1.93 4

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

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