Head to head
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Z Ai | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Openai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $1.40 | $0.200 |
| Output $/M tokens | $4.40 | $1.20 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| WM Score | 83 | 83 |
| Benchmark quality | 79.9 | 80.2 |
| Hosts serving it | 26 | 3 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 126.5 | 105 |
| Latency (ms) | 388 | 646 |
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Which should you pick?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna costs less per million input tokens — about 7.0× cheaper than Z.ai: GLM 5.2. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.