# Gemini 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.

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GLM 5.2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Google | Zai Org |
| Access | API only | Open weights |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 256K tokens |
| List price, input | $1.50 / M tokens | $1.40 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $9 / M tokens | $4.40 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | $0.26 / M tokens |
| License | Proprietary API | Not listed |
| Fine-tunable | No | Yes |

Specifications 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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