Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Grok 2 Vision 1212 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 2 Vision 1212GLM-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-2-vision-1212 is the latest vision model in the Grok family, delivering outstanding performance on vision-based tasks and achieving state-of-the-art results in visual mathematical reasoning and document-based question answering. It supports a wide range of visual inputs, including documents, charts, screenshots, and real-world images, making it well-suited for advanced visual understanding and reasoning use cases. The price of calling this model in AIhubMix is 10% lower than on the official website.
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GLM 5.2: $3.9438/M output tokens; Grok 2 Vision 1212: $9/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 2 Vision 1212 accepts text and image input.
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