SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 vs Z.ai GLM 5.2
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- GLM 5.2 is 1.7× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- GLM 5.2 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 500K tokens.
- GLM 5.2 output costs $1.54 per 1M via Morph, against the list price of $7.00.
- Grok 4.7 is the newer model (released 2026-09-21).
| Grok 4.7 | GLM 5.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | SpaceXAI | Z.ai |
| Released | 2026-09-21 | 2026-06-16 |
| Input / 1M | $2.00 | $0.0060 |
| Output / 1M | $6.00 | $7.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.0050 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $3.00 | $1.75 |
| Context | 500K | 1M |
| Max output | 450K | 944K |
| Accepts | text, image, file | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 5 | 34 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $6.00 | $1.54 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Grok 4.7
$210 per month$7.00 per day
GLM 5.2
$105 per month$3.51 per day
GLM 5.2 saves $105 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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