Quality
Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side
Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.
| Metric | Google: Gemma 3 27B | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Known Good Index | 37 | 91 |
| Mathematics Index | 47 | 86 |
| Science Index | 44 | 97 |
| Reasoning Index | 40 | — |
| Agentic Index | — | 91 |
| Openness Index | 60 | 60 |
Quality Breakdown
Every evaluation both models report a published score for
Bar = Google: Gemma 3 27B · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.2 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)
Right-hand figures read Google: Gemma 3 27B / Z.ai: GLM 5.2. Google: Gemma 3 27B leads on 0 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 on 2.
Arena Elo
Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes
Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.
| Metric | Google: Gemma 3 27B | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Text Arena | — | 1,464 |
| Text Arena (style controlled) | — | 1,469 |
Price & Cost
Published API pricing by token type
USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.
| Metric | Google: Gemma 3 27B | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/1M | $0.08 | $0.70 |
| Output $/1M | $0.45 | $2.20 |
| Blended $/1M | $0.17 | $1.07 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.040 | $0.130 |
Context Window
Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted
Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.
| Metric | Google: Gemma 3 27B | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262k | 1.05M |
| Max output tokens | 131k | 131k |
Speed & Latency
Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers
Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.
| Metric | Google: Gemma 3 27B | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Output tokens/s | 24 | 55 |
| Time to first token | 0.9s | 1.7s |
Providers
Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed
| Provider | Google: Gemma 3 27B blended | Google: Gemma 3 27B tok/s | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 blended | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasail | $0.17 | 54 | $2.15 | 45 |
| Novita | $0.14 | 32 | $1.07 | 39 |
| DeepInfra | $0.10 | 22 | $1.45 | 68 |
| Phala | $0.23 | 15 | $2.15 | 48 |
| Nebius | $0.15 | 12 | — | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| StreamLake | — | — | $1.07 | 45 |
| Baidu · first party | — | — | $1.12 | 42 |
| 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.