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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
#4 of 65
93based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#82 of 353
102.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#448 of 525
$4.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $12.00
Cache hit price
#306 of 412
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#94 of 574
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#8 of 65
91based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#79 of 353
103.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#347 of 525
$1.78
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.03 · Out $7.00
Cache hit price
#133 of 412
$0.033
per 1M tokens (−3%)
Context
#111 of 574
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 93 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 scores 91 — a 2-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 $1.78 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is about 2.5× cheaper.

Throughput is 102 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 103 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2, with time to first token at 3.4s and 1.2s. 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). 39 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 24 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 93 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.50 $1.78
Output tok/s 102 103
Context window 1.05M 1.05M
Providers 2 37
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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 93 91
Reasoning Index 91 —
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 1,470
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,487 1,475
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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 $0.03
Output $/1M $12.00 $7.00
Blended $/1M $4.50 $1.78
Cache read $/1M $0.200 $0.033
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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 944k
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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 102 103
Time to first token 3.4s 1.2s
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Providers

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

39 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 AI Studio $2.25 115 — —
Google · first party $2.25 82 — —
Decart — — $2.90 359
CoreWeave — — $1.07 182
Nebius — — $2.15 179
BaseTen — — $2.15 165
Together — — $2.15 165
Wafer — — $1.78 164
Reka · first party — — $1.60 149
Venice — — $2.15 133
Mistral · first party — — $2.15 114
Parasail — — $2.15 112
ModelRun — — $3.35 108
Friendli — — $2.15 108
Crusoe — — $2.15 100
Inceptron — — $1.04 100
Alibaba · first party — — $1.48 100
Cloudflare — — $2.14 98
DigitalOcean — — $1.07 88
InferenceNet — — $2.08 87
SiliconFlow — — $1.07 79
Baidu · first party — — $0.29 78
Makora — — $1.14 78
DeepInfra — — $0.70 74
Ambient — — $0.95 63
Z.AI · first party — — $2.15 63
Io Net — — $1.33 56
StreamLake — — $0.43 55
Morph — — $1.40 53
AtlasCloud — — $1.44 52
GMICloud — — $2.15 42
Novita — — $1.00 42
Phala — — $1.70 40
Sail Research — — $1.16 37
Ionstream — — $2.15 30
AkashML — — $1.18 27
Chutes — — $1.93 4
Fireworks — — $2.15 —
Relace — — $1.30 —

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 →