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GLM 5.2 Open vs Mistral Large 3 2512 Open

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.

Choose Mistral Large 3 2512 for the lower output price ($1.5/M vs $1.96/M). Choose GLM 5.2 if you need the larger 1M context window.

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 specs

SpecGLM 5.2Mistral Large 3 2512
MakerZ.AIMistral AI
TypeOpen-weightOpen-weight
Context window1M tokens262K tokens
Input price$0.63/M · free self-host$0.5/M · free self-host
Output price$1.96/M · free self-host$1.5/M · free self-host
Vision / multimodalNoYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableYesYes
LicenseMITApache 2.0

Feature comparison

CapabilityGLM 5.2Mistral Large 3 2512
Open weights (downloadable)✓✓
Self-hostable✓✓
Runs fully offline✓✓
Vision / multimodal✗✓
Tool / function calling✓✓
1M+ context window✓✗

Benchmarks: GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Large 3 2512

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

GLM 5.2
Mistral Large 3 2512
Intelligence index
51.1
15.9
Coding index
68.8
20.1
GPQA
89.5%
68%
Humanity's Last Exam
40.1%
4.1%
Long Context Reasoning
71.3%
34.7%
SciCode
50.5%
36.2%
IFBench
73.3%
36.2%
τ²-Bench
99.1%
24.6%
τ-Bench Banking
26.8%
5.8%
Terminal-Bench
77.9%
12%
Terminal-Bench Hard
50.8%
15.9%
Math index
–
38
MMLU-Pro
–
80.7%
LiveCodeBench
–
46.5%
AIME 2025
–
38%
Speed
138.1 tok/s
60.9 tok/s
Latency
0.93s
1.05s
Intelligence per $
23.8
21.2

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How GLM 5.2 and Mistral Large 3 2512 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (4.6 vs 4.7 / 5).
CriterionGLM 5.2Mistral Large 3 2512
Cost-efficiency4.54.5
Context window5.04.0
Openness5.05.0
Self-hosting5.05.0
Multimodality3.55.0

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

GLM 5.2 Open

Z.AI · Open-weight

GLM 5.2 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agent workflows, project-level software engineering,...

Mistral Large 3 2512 Open

Mistral AI · Open-weight

Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral’s most capable model to date, featuring a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 41B active parameters (675B total), and released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Other models in these families

These variants are tracked but not compared here — one page per family keeps the comparison readable.

Other variants tracked
GLM 5.1GLM 5GLM 5 TurboGLM 5V TurboGLM 4.7GLM 4.6GLM 4.7 FlashGLM 4.5GLM 4.6VGLM 4.5 AirGLM 4.5V
Other variants tracked
Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Small 4Devstral 2 2512Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral Medium 3Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral Small 3.2 24BMinistral 3 8B 2512Mistral LargeMistral Large 2407Mistral Small 3SabaMinistral 3 3B 2512Mixtral 8x22B InstructCodestral 2508UncensoredVoxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral Nemo

Frequently asked questions

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 — which is cheaper?

Mistral Large 3 2512 is cheaper on output ($1.5/M vs $1.96/M).

Which has the larger context window?

GLM 5.2 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Mistral Large 3 2512 for the lower output price ($1.5/M vs $1.96/M). Choose GLM 5.2 if you need the larger 1M context window.

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