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GLM 5.2 Open vs Mistral Medium 3.5 Open

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

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Choose GLM 5.2 for the lower output price ($1.96/M vs $7.5/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 specs

SpecGLM 5.2Mistral Medium 3.5
MakerZ.AIMistral AI
TypeOpen-weightOpen-weight
Context window1M tokens262K tokens
Input price$0.63/M · free self-host$1.5/M · free self-host
Output price$1.96/M · free self-host$7.5/M · free self-host
Vision / multimodalNoYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableYesYes
LicenseMITApache 2.0

Feature comparison

CapabilityGLM 5.2Mistral Medium 3.5
Open weights (downloadable)✓✓
Self-hostable✓✓
Runs fully offline✓✓
Vision / multimodal✗✓
Tool / function calling✓✓
1M+ context window✓✗

Benchmarks: GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

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

GLM 5.2 delivers 2.4× more intelligence per dollar.
GLM 5.2
Mistral Medium 3.5
Intelligence index
51.1
29.9
Coding index
68.8
46.9
GPQA
89.5%
74.8%
Humanity's Last Exam
40.1%
12.8%
Long Context Reasoning
71.3%
61%
SciCode
50.5%
39.6%
IFBench
73.3%
68.8%
τ²-Bench
99.1%
94.2%
τ-Bench Banking
26.8%
14.4%
Terminal-Bench
77.9%
50.6%
Terminal-Bench Hard
50.8%
33.3%
Speed
138.1 tok/s
59.8 tok/s
Latency
0.93s
0.77s
Intelligence per $
23.8
10

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How GLM 5.2 and Mistral Medium 3.5 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (4.6 vs 4.6 / 5).
CriterionGLM 5.2Mistral Medium 3.5
Cost-efficiency4.54.0
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 Medium 3.5 Open

Mistral AI · Open-weight

Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B instruction-following model from Mistral AI. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is designed for agentic workflows, coding, and complex...

Other models in these families

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

Other variants tracked
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Other variants tracked
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Frequently asked questions

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 — which is cheaper?

GLM 5.2 is cheaper on output ($1.96/M vs $7.5/M).

Which has the larger context window?

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

GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose GLM 5.2 for the lower output price ($1.96/M vs $7.5/M). It also gives you the larger 1M context window.

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