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Kimi K2.5 vs GLM 5.2

On provider list prices, Kimi K2.5 costs $0.50 per million input tokens against $1.40 for GLM 5.2: 2.8x apart. Output is $2.80 against $4.40 (1.6x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Kimi K2.5G GLM 5.2
LabTogethercomputerZai Org
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window256K tokens256K tokens
List price, input$0.5 / M tokens$1.4 / M tokens
List price, output$2.8 / M tokens$4.4 / M tokens
Cached inputn/a$0.26 / M tokens
LicenseNot listedNot listed
Fine-tunableYesYes

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 $1,580 a month on Kimi K2.5 and $3,220 on GLM 5.2 at list: a gap of $1,640, or 2.0x.

Kimi K2.5$0.50$2.80
GLM 5.2$1.40$4.40
InputOutput

Choose Kimi K2.5 for

  • Whole-document reasoning
  • Long-context retrieval
  • Open-weight fine-tuning
Kimi K2.5 details

Choose GLM 5.2 for

  • Agents on open weights
  • Code and structured outputs
  • Fine-tuning toward an owned model
GLM 5.2 details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or GLM 5.2?

Kimi K2.5, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.50/$2.80 per million tokens in and out against $1.40/$4.40 for GLM 5.2. Billed on Allocate: $0.54/$3.00 against $1.50/$4.71, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

They match: both read 262,144 tokens (256K) per request.

Can I fine-tune Kimi K2.5 or GLM 5.2?

Both publish open weights (Kimi K2.5: Not listed; GLM 5.2: Not listed), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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Run the numbers on your workload

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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.

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