GLM 5.2 API Pricing

Where GLM 5.2 sits on price

At $7.00 per million output tokens, GLM 5.2 is a premium tier model — 3.2× the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 28% and pricier than 72% of the models we track. It sits 17th cheapest of the 18 Z.ai (GLM) models we track. Output costs 1166.7× more than input here, so anything that makes the model write less — tighter instructions, structured output, lower max_tokens — moves the bill more than trimming the prompt.

Cached input is 17% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 100% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.

What real workloads cost on GLM 5.2

These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a premium-priced model — a $7.00/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.

Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads GLM 5.2 with caching and batch options.

GLM 5.2 price history

Z.ai (GLM) last raised GLM 5.2's output price on Oct 29, 2026, from $0.014/$7.00 to $0.006/$7.00 per 1M in/out. That is one of 37 repricings in the 89 days we have tracked it — worth knowing before you hard-code today's rate into a budget.

Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).

GLM 5.2 vs GPT-5.2 (batch)

The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is GPT-5.2 (batch) (OpenAI) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.869 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.

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