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GLM-5.2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 58 20.0 | 13 25.5 |
| Family | GLM | Nemotron |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | — | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $1.40/M tokens | $0.10/M tokens |
| Output Price | $4.40/M tokens | $0.95/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. | NVIDIA build lists serverless NIM pricing at $0.10 input and $0.95 output per million tokens. Self-hosted weights are also available; infrastructure costs vary. |
| Capabilities | textreasoninglong-context | textreasoningcodingtool-usefunction-callinglong-contextagenticlocal-deploymentopen-weights |
| Training Cutoff | — | May 2026 post-training; September 2025 pre-training |
| Max Output | 1.0M tokens | 33K tokens |
| API Identifier | glm-5.2-max | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | 51.0858347714416Artificial Analysis model page | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | 34https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-2 | 14https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/nemotron-3-5-lightning |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.4949artificial-analysis | 74.3434artificial-analysis |
| SciCode | 51.1574artificial-analysis | 32.0602artificial-analysis |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 77.9026artificial-analysis | 24.3446artificial-analysis |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | — | 24artificial-analysis |
| View GLM-5.2 | View Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BCheapest | $0.10 | $0.48 | $0.58 | — |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.40 | $2.20 | $3.60 | +526% |
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.
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA open-weight 30B-A3B reasoning model for fast, long-running agents. Its hybrid Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts, and attention architecture supports function calling, coding, tool use, long context, and efficient local or serverless deployment.
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