Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3.6 Max Preview 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
Qwen3.6 Max PreviewGLM-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 Max model Preview version, the largest and most capable model in the Qwen3.6 series, currently offers its pure-text model capabilities for trial. Compared with the previously released Qwen3-Max and Qwen3.6-Plus, this model further enhances vibe coding capabilities, executes coding agents more efficiently, significantly improves front-end programming and development capabilities, and further upgrades long-tail knowledge handling.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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GLM 5.2: $2.524/M output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview: $7.608/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 1509; GLM 5.2: 1509 (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 Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts 240,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on GLM 5.2 and 64,000 tokens on Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
GLM 5.2 at 35.9 tok/s and Qwen3.6 Max Preview at 34.5 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; Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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