Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23 from Qwen 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
Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23GLM-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.
The snapshot version of the Tongyi Qianwen 3 series Max model is from January 23, 2026. By default, it does not require thinking, but thinking mode can be enabled through the enable_thinking parameter, as detailed in the code example. (After enabling thinking by passing parameters, it becomes: Qwen3-Max-Thinking). This model has a total parameter count exceeding one trillion (1T) and a pre-training data volume of up to 36T Tokens, making it the largest and most powerful reasoning model from Alibaba to date.
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Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23: $1.8032/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $2.524/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1509; Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23: 1475 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23: 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 Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23 accepts 252,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23.
GLM 5.2 at 35.9 tok/s and Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23 at 8.0 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; Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23 accepts text input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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