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Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ·Alibaba vs Z.ai

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — head-to-head comparison

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile Z.ai: GLM 5.2 profile All comparisons
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#6 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#174 of 341
48.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#322 of 450
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#293 of 344
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#154 of 487
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#10 of 65
91based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#98 of 341
71.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#275 of 450
$1.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.97 · Out $3.04
Cache hit price
#239 of 344
$0.19
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#86 of 487
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 scores 91 — a 2-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 1 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $2.21 per 1M tokens for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max and $1.48 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is about 1.5× cheaper.

Throughput is 48 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max and 72 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2, with time to first token at 1.1s and 1.6s. Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.05M.

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 35 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.21 $1.48
Output tok/s 48 72
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Providers 1 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 93 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 = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.2 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 86
SWE-bench Verified77 / 79

Right-hand figures read Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max / Z.ai: GLM 5.2. Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max leads on 1 of 3, 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Text Arena 1,464
Text Arena (style controlled) 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Input $/1M $1.48 $0.97
Output $/1M $4.42 $3.04
Blended $/1M $2.21 $1.48
Cache read $/1M $0.295 $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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Max output tokens 131k 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Output tokens/s 48 72
Time to first token 1.1s 1.6s
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Providers

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

35 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.2 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.2 tok/s
Alibaba · first party $2.21 53 $1.48 73
Decart $3.23 162
Crusoe $2.15 131
Mistral · first party $2.15 123
ModelRun $3.35 108
Friendli $2.15 96
Parasail $2.15 94
Fireworks $2.15 92
DigitalOcean $1.07 89
BaseTen $2.15 85
Baidu · first party $2.15 82
CoreWeave $1.18 80
Venice $2.15 80
Makora $1.14 78
Reka · first party $1.76 76
Cloudflare $2.15 71
Together $2.15 70
Novita $1.05 62
Inceptron $1.69 57
Io Net $1.33 56
StreamLake $1.04 56
Phala $1.70 55
DeepInfra $0.76 48
GMICloud $2.15 45
AtlasCloud $1.44 43
SiliconFlow $1.83 43
Z.AI · first party $2.15 42
Wafer $1.94 39
Ambient $0.95 38
Sail Research $1.16 37
Ionstream $2.15 30
AkashML $1.18 27
Relace $1.07 22
Morph $1.42 19
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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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →