Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 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 Small 1.1Runner-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.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 15x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
14× cheaper
Output
$0.30
15× cheaper
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Input
$1.40
Output
$4.40
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 14× input, 15× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
60%
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 uses 11.5x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
50%Vocabulary56%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.27
4.3Bold3.7
5.7Lists2.8
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings0.56
0.34Transitions0.24
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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