Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and GPT 4.1 from OpenAI 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
GPT 4.1GLM-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 latest flagship multimodal model supports million-token context, with encoding capability (SWE-bench 54.6%) and instruction-following (Scale AI 38.3%) performance significantly surpassing GPT-4o, while reducing costs by 26%, making it suitable for complex tasks. Its automatic caching mechanism offers a 75% cost reduction on cache hits.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
GLM 5.2: $2.524/M output tokens; GPT 4.1: $8/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2: 1509; GPT 4.1: 1457 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GLM 5.2: 0.7s 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 GPT 4.1 accepts 1,047,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 32,768 tokens on GPT 4.1.
GPT 4.1 at 81.3 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; GPT 4.1 accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
Related model match-ups readers also look at.
AIHubMix