Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning) from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GLM 5.2
Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning)GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.
Grok 4.1 is a new conversational model with significant improvements in real-world usability, delivering exceptional performance in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions. It is more perceptive to nuanced user intent, more engaging to converse with, and more coherent in personality, while fully preserving its core intelligence and reliability. Built on large-scale reinforcement learning infrastructure, the model is optimized for style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment, and leverages frontier agentic reasoning models as reward evaluators to autonomously assess and iterate on responses at scale, significantly enhancing overall interaction quality.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning): $0.5/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $2.524/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1509; Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning): 1461 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GLM 5.2: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 and Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning) accepts 2,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 2,000,000 tokens on Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning).
Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning) at 75.9 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 35.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4.1 Fast (reasoning) accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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