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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GLM-5.2

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Gemini 3.5 Flash GLM-5.2
Input cost / 1M $1.50 $1.40
Output cost / 1M $9.00 $4.40
Context window 1,048,576 tokens 1,048,576 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $9.00 = $9.00
Total
$10.50

GLM-5.2

Input: 1M × $1.40 = $1.40
Output: 1M × $4.40 = $4.40
Total
$5.80

Total cost savings

$4.70

GLM-5.2 saves $4.70 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); GLM-5.2 handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$1.50 in · $9.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

GLM-5.2

$1.40 in · $4.40 out / 1M

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All premium

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$525.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%GLM-5.2

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$337.00

Routine slice
$232.00
Premium slice
$105.00

Monthly savings

$188.00

35.8% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (gemini-3-5-flash, glm-5-2) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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