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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
92based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#161 of 353
72.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#371 of 525
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#353 of 412
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#200 of 574
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#8 of 65
91based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#80 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, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 92 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 $1.78 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is about 1.2× cheaper.

Throughput is 72 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max and 103 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2, with time to first token at 1.2s and 1.2s. 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). 37 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 2 serve both.

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

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 92 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.21 $1.78
Output tok/s 72 103
Context window 1.00M 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 92 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 — 1,470
Text Arena (style controlled) — 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.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Input $/1M $1.48 $0.03
Output $/1M $4.42 $7.00
Blended $/1M $2.21 $1.78
Cache read $/1M $0.295 $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.

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

MetricQwen: Qwen3.7 MaxZ.ai: GLM 5.2
Output tokens/s 72 103
Time to first token 1.2s 1.2s
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Providers

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

37 hosts · 2 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 64 $1.48 70
AtlasCloud $3.75 33 $1.44 50
Decart — — $2.90 383
CoreWeave — — $1.07 190
Nebius — — $2.15 169
Together — — $2.15 162
Reka · first party — — $1.60 149
Wafer — — $1.78 148
BaseTen — — $2.15 134
Parasail — — $2.15 124
Venice — — $2.15 122
Friendli — — $2.15 116
Mistral · first party — — $2.15 113
Inceptron — — $1.04 111
ModelRun — — $3.35 108
Crusoe — — $2.15 100
Ambient — — $0.95 88
InferenceNet — — $2.08 87
Cloudflare — — $2.14 86
Baidu · first party — — $0.29 84
Makora — — $1.14 78
SiliconFlow — — $1.07 76
DigitalOcean — — $1.07 73
Z.AI · first party — — $2.15 65
Io Net — — $1.33 56
DeepInfra — — $0.70 53
GMICloud — — $2.15 51
StreamLake — — $0.43 46
Morph — — $1.42 43
Novita — — $1.00 42
Sail Research — — $1.16 37
Ionstream — — $2.15 30
Phala — — $1.70 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 →