Mistral Devstral Medium vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Compare Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI against Z.ai: GLM 5.2 by Zhipu AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
3.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
2.2× cheaper
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Input
$1.40
Output
$4.40
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 3.5× input, 2.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
61%
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 uses 2.9x more headings
Mistral Devstral Medium
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
50%Vocabulary56%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.27
4.5Bold3.7
5.3Lists2.8
0.00Emoji0.00
0.19Headings0.56
0.32Transitions0.24
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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