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GLM 5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 64 42.4 | 65 42.0 |
| Family | GLM | Kimi |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 203K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.72/M tokens | $0.60/M tokens |
| Output Price | $2.30/M tokens | $2.50/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.1500/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textcode | textcodeextended-thinking |
| Max Output | 131K tokens | 262K tokens |
| API Identifier | z-ai/glm-5 | moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 86https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5 | 83.8384artificial-analysis |
| GPQA | — | 84.5https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84.6https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking |
| AIME 2025 | — | 94.6667artificial-analysis |
| View GLM 5 | View Kimi K2 Thinking | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2 ThinkingCheapest | $0.60 | $1.25 | $1.85 | — |
| GLM 5 | $0.72 | $1.15 | $1.87 | +1% |
Z.ai
GLM 5
GLM-5 is Z.ai's open-weight language model for agentic engineering, with 744B total and 40B active parameters. Its released checkpoint configuration supports 202,752 token positions; hosted service limits and prices depend on the provider.
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.
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