LLM Comparison

GLM-5.2 vs Kimi K2 Thinking

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated July 2026

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	GLM-5.2	Kimi K2 Thinking
Organization	Z.ai	Moonshot AI
OpenTools Score
Family	GLM	Kimi
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	—	Nov 2025
Context Window	1.0M tokens	262K tokens
Input Price	$1.40/M tokens	$0.60/M tokens
Output Price	$4.40/M tokens	$2.50/M tokens
Pricing Notes	Artificial Analysis page reported Input $1.40 per 1M tokens, cache hit $0.26 per 1M tokens, Output $4.40 per 1M tokens, AA Briefcase Elo 1265.54, and median output speed 102.29 tokens/second for GLM-5.2 (max) during this run. Verify provider terms before production use.	Cache read: $0.1500/M tokens
Capabilities	textreasoninglong-context	textcodeextended-thinking
Max Output	1.0M tokens	262K tokens
API Identifier	`glm-5.2-max`	`moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking`
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1	51.0858347714416Artificial Analysis model page	—
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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
Kimi K2 ThinkingCheapest	$0.60	$1.25	$1.85	—
GLM-5.2	$1.40	$2.20	$3.60	+95%

Z.ai

GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 (max) is a Z AI text model tracked by Artificial Analysis. The page reports a 1 million token context window, text input and text output, a 51.09 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and measured output speed around 102 tokens per second.

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Thinking

Kimi K2 Thinking is a large language model from Moonshot AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.60/M input tokens.