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GLM 5.2 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Compare GLM 5.2 from Z.AI and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 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.

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GLM 5.2
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-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.

Input$1.1268 /M
Output$3.9438 /M
Cache read$0.2817 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Qwen · → text

Significantly improved performance on reasoning tasks, including logical reasoning, mathematics, science, coding, and academic benchmarks that typically require human expertise. Markedly better general capabilities, such as instruction following, tool usage, text generation, and alignment with human preferences. Enhanced 256K long-context understanding capabilities.

Input$0.1028 /M
Output$0.4112 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

GLM 5.2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input /M
$1.1268
$0.1028
Output /M
$3.9438
$0.4112
Cache read /M
$0.2817
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
131,072
0
Time to First Token
0.8 s
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Throughput
35.2 tok/s
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Modalities
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 16, 2026
July 30, 2025

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
glm-5.2qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507
1300136014201480
Overall
13831476
Coding
14401440
Math
13811381
Hard prompts
14071407
Instruction following
13671367
Multi-turn
13831383
Creative writing
13211321
Longer query
13811381
Chinese
14361436
English
13931393

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
$12.34 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 5.2, Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: $0.4112/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.9438/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Can I call GLM 5.2 and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 with the same API key?

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.

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