AllocateGemini 3.5 Flash vs GLM 5.2
On provider list prices, GLM 5.2 costs $1.40 per million input tokens against $1.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1.1x apart. Output is $4.40 against $9 (2.0x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.
Gemini 3.5 FlashG GLM 5.2Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.
What the numbers say
Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $3,220 a month on GLM 5.2 and $4,950 on Gemini 3.5 Flash at list: a gap of $1,730, or 1.5x.
Gemini 3.5 Flash reads 1M tokens per request against 256K for GLM 5.2, 3.8x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash for
- High-volume support and triage
- Document extraction at scale
- Vision and OCR pipelines
Choose GLM 5.2 for
- Agents on open weights
- Code and structured outputs
- Fine-tuning toward an owned model
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.40/$4.40 per million tokens in and out against $1.50/$9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash. Billed on Allocate: $1.50/$4.71 against $1.60/$9.63, list plus 7%.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 262,144 (256K) for GLM 5.2.
Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.5 Flash or GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2 publishes open weights (Not listed) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Gemini 3.5 Flash is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.
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Run the numbers on your workload
Or don’t choose. On Allocate a route name is the contract: point yours at one model today, swap to the other tomorrow, and compare them on your live traffic with per-token metering.